Health care seeking behavior among presumptive tuberculosis patients in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health seeking behavior is one of the challenges affecting tuberculosis (TB) control program because of its high risk to prolonged diseases transmission and poor treatment outcome. Although there are few primary studies that reported diversified magnitudes of health seeking behavior among presumptive TB patients in Ethiopia, there is no review study that attempted to summarize the available evidence. Thus, this review was aimed to estimate the proportion of health care seeking behavior from health facility and to summarize the reasons why individuals with presumptive TB are not seeking health care in Ethiopia.

Method

A systematic review and meta-analysis study was conducted on primary studies that reported proportion of health seeking behavior among presumptive TB

SUBMITTER: Gamtesa DF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7238571 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature