Burden of stigma among tuberculosis patients in a pastoralist community in Kenya: A mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tuberculosis (TB) stigma remains a barrier to early diagnosis and treatment completion. Increased understanding of stigma is necessary for improved interventions to minimise TB stigma and its effects. The purpose of this study is to quantitatively measure TB stigma and to explore qualitatively its manifestation among TB patients in a rural Kenyan community.

Methods

This hospital based study using explanatory sequential mixed methods approach was conducted in 2016. In the quantitative part of the study, a questionnaire containing socio-demographic characteristics and scales measuring perceived TB stigma and experienced TB stigma, was administered to 208 adult pulmonary TB patients receiving treatment in West Pokot County. Respondents with high stigma were purposive

SUBMITTER: Mbuthia GW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7561176 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature