Effect of food insecurity on mental health of patients with tuberculosis in Southwest Ethiopia: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of food insecurity on the mental health of patients with tuberculosis (TB) in Ethiopia.

Design

A prospective cohort study.

Setting

Health centres and hospitals located in Jimma zone, Southwest Ethiopia.

Participants

Patients with TB who had recently been diagnosed with TB and started directly observed treatment in the selected 26 health institutions from October 2017 to October 2018. A total of 268 patients were followed for 6 months and data were collected at recruitment and two follow-up visits (at 2 and 6 months). Patients with multidrug-resistant TB were not included in the study.

Main outcome measures

Mental distress was measured by the Self-Reporting Questionnaire-20 while food inse

SUBMITTER: Soboka M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8479992 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature