Is financial social support for tuberculosis patients leading to better treatment outcomes, T ürkiye, 2018-2019?

Jpn J Infect Dis. 2023 Aug 31. doi: 10.7883/yoken.JJID.2023.196. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe aim of this study was to determine influencing factors including regular financial social support program on tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes and success rates. TB patients registered 2018-2019 were included for this retrospective cohort study. We classified into two groups as those who received financial support for at least one month and those who did not. A total of 22867 patients were included in the study, 5033 of whom received financial social support and 17834 of whom did not. The success rate was 11.9% higher among the group of patients received financial social support compared to the those who did not receive (97.34% vs. 85.40%). When other factors in the model were controlled, the success rate among all patients was 1.3 times higher for female, 2.6 times higher for under 50 years of age, 1.5 times higher for extra-pulmonary TB, 1.5 times higher for new case, 5.9 times higher for drug susceptible TB and 5.8 times higher for those who received financial support. This is the first study from Türkiye evaluating the effect of regular financial social support program on TB treatment outcomes since the program started in 2018. We recommend regular financial support to TB patients for all countries.PMID:37648486 | DOI:10.7883/yoken.JJID.2023.196
Source: Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Source Type: research