Prevalence and associated factors for alcohol use disorder among tuberculosis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alcohol use disorders (AUD) in tuberculosis patients are complicated with poor compliance to anti-tuberculosis treatment and poor tuberculosis treatment outcomes. However, aggregate data concerning this problem is not available. Therefore, this review aimed to fill the above gap by generating an average prevalence of AUD in tuberculosis patients.

Method

Our electronic search for original articles was conducted in the databases of Scopus, PubMed, and EMBASE, African Index Medicus, and psych-info. Besides, the reference list of selected articles was looked at manually to have further eligible articles for the prevalence and associated factors of AUD in tuberculosis patients. The random-effects model was employed during the analysis. MS-Excel was used to extract data

SUBMITTER: Necho M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7778806 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature