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Introduction:
Tuberculosis, which is the leading cause of death due to single-agent infectious diseases, is the center of
tuberculosis in the country, which has the highest incidence of this disease in recent years. Therefore, the
aim of this study was to investigate the effect of treatment adherence training in patients with tuberculosis
treatment failure covered by health centers in Sistan region.
Methods:
The present study was a quasi-experimental study with a control and experimental group that is among the
TB patients in Sistan region. They did not receive any training and were selected. Collection and data were
entered in SPSS software version 24 and analyzed by descriptive and analytical tests.
Results:
The results showed that the scores of the control group and the experimental group were significantly
different after participating in training courses (sig < 0.05). The results of the study on the effect of gender
on adherence showed that the two groups differed in terms of adherence to treatment according to the time
of visit to the doctor. The variables of age and duration of treatment had a significant effect on patients'
adherence to treatment (sig < 0.05) so that with increasing age and duration of treatment, the score of
adherence to treatment decreased.
Conclusion:
Adherence to treatment training has a significant effect on patients 'knowledge and their adherence to their
treatment process, so patients' knowledge and attitude was effective in the quality of following medication
instructions.
Keywords: Education, Adherence to treatment, Treatment failure, Tuberculosis.
Biography
Esmat Nouhi is an associate professor at Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran. She has published a lot of papers in the field of Nursing.
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