Journal of Community & Public Health Nursing
Open Access

Abstract

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.