Patient Preferences for Strategies to Improve Tuberculosis Diagnostic Services in Zambia.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Delayed engagement in tuberculosis (TB) services is associated with ongoing transmission and poor clinical outcomes.

Objective

To assess whether patients with TB have differential preferences for strategies to improve the public health reach of TB diagnostic services.

Design, setting, and participants

A cross-sectional study was undertaken in which a discrete choice experiment (DCE) was administered between September 18, 2019, and January 17, 2020, to 401 adults (>18 years of age) with microbiologically confirmed TB in Lusaka, Zambia. The DCE had 7 attributes with 2 to 3 levels per attribute related to TB service enhancements. Latent class analysis was used to identify segments of participants with unique preferences. Multiscenario simulations were used to

SUBMITTER: Kerkhoff AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9425150 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature