Prediagnostic loss to follow-up in an active case finding tuberculosis programme: a mixed-methods study from rural Bihar, India.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To quantify the prediagnostic loss to follow-up (PDLFU) in an active case finding tuberculosis (TB) programme and identify the barriers and enablers in undergoing diagnostic evaluation.

Design

Explanatory mixed-methods design.

Setting

A rural population of 1.02 million in the Samastipur district of Bihar, India.

Participants

Based on their knowledge of health status of families, community health workers or CHWs (called accredited social health activist or locally) and informal providers referred people to the programme. The field coordinators (FCs) in the programme screened the referrals for TB symptoms to identify presumptive TB cases. CHWs accompanied the presumptive TB patients to free diagnostic evaluation, and a transport allowance was given to t

SUBMITTER: Garg T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7232626 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature