Patient level barriers to accessing TB care services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda, a mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Lockdown measure has been utilized widely to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic transmission and recently during the 2022 Sudan Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in Uganda. These have setback effects on the continuity of essential health services such as tuberculosis (TB) care, reversing progress made in the fight against tuberculosis (TB) over the past decade. We set out to understand patient-reported barriers to accessing TB care services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda.

Methods

Mixed methods study involving review of medical records of TB patients who received TB care from January to September 2020. We used quantitative and qualitative methods including phone questionnaires and in-depth interviews. We carried out descriptive statistics, a chi-square test and conduc

SUBMITTER: Bbuye M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10782633 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature