Household food insecurity among patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and its associated factors in South India: a cross-sectional analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Food insecurity is 'the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate, safe foods or inability to acquire foods in socially acceptable ways'. Majority of tuberculosis (TB) cases of resource-poor settings experience food insecurity, which impacts treatment adherence and outcomes. We aimed to determine level of household food insecurity (HFI) and its associated factors in patients with pulmonary TB.

Design

This is a cross-sectional analysis of data from an ongoing cohort study.

Setting

National Tuberculosis Programme (NTP) in three districts of South India.

Participants

All newly diagnosed pulmonary TB cases of the cohort enrolled in the NTP at the Designated Microscopy Centres (DMCs) and Primary Health Centres (PHCs) from October 2015 to

SUBMITTER: Ayiraveetil R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7050349 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature