Illness perception in tuberculosis by implementation of the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire - a TBNET study.

ABSTRACT: How patients relate to the experience of their illness has a direct impact over their behavior. We aimed to assess illness perception in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) by means of the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (BIPQ) in correlation with patients' demographic features and clinical TB score. Our observational questionnaire based study included series of consecutive TB patients enrolled in several countries from October 2008 to January 2011 with 167 valid questionnaires analyzed. Each BIPQ item assessed one dimension of illness perceptions like the consequences, timeline, personal control, treatment control, identity, coherence, emotional representation and concern. An open question referred to the main causes of TB in each patient's opinion. The over-all BIPQ score (3

SUBMITTER: Pesut DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4233026 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature