What affected Chinese parents' decisions about tuberculosis (TB) treatment: Implications based on a cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Although progress has been made in tuberculosis (TB) treatment, China still remains one of the high-burden TB countries. One important reason that has not received sufficient scholarly attention is that Chinese individuals tend to underestimate the threat of TB. This contributed to the high rate of delay in seeking TB treatment and noncompliance with doctors' regimen. Hence, this research examined how TB knowledge affected Chinese parents' risk perceptions and their efficacy appraisal in TB treatment, and how their risk perception and efficacy appraisal affected their intentions to seek timely TB treatment for their children and adhere to doctors' regimen.

Methods

We conducted an online cross-sectional survey with 1129 parents of children attending kindergarten, pr

SUBMITTER: Xia T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7833143 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature