Identifying factors affecting latent tuberculosis treatment acceptance among healthcare workers: a retrospective analysis in a tertiary care centre.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Official guidelines recommend tuberculosis (TB) screening programmes for all healthcare workers (HCWs), along with offering treatment when latent TB infection (LTBI) is diagnosed. However, adherence to treatment among HCWs is lower compared with non-HCWs. The aim of the present study was to examine the rate of LTBI treatment acceptance among HCWs and to characterise the factors associated with non-acceptance.

Design and setting

This was a retrospective cohort study. All HCWs diagnosed with LTBI, who had tuberculin skin test (TST) conversion during their work, between 2000 and 2015, in a single tertiary academic medical centre, and who consented to answer a questionnaire, were enrolled.

Results

Overall, 147 of 219 (67%) with TST conversion agreed to participa

SUBMITTER: Bar-Meir M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8424847 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature