Nagpal, Manisha and Chawla, Naresh (2020) Research on Taking Depression as a Predictor of Treatment Outcome in Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis Patients under Programmatic Management of Drug Resistant TB Services in Amritsar, Punjab. In: Challenges in Disease and Health Research Vol. 3. B P International, pp. 61-68. ISBN 978-93-90206-90-2
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This cross-sectional study was conducted on all MDR-TB patients who were being treated under
PMDT services in Amritsar district from 1st April 2014 to 31st March 2015. The prevalence of
depression and its effect on the treatment outcome was determined. Data management and analysis
was done by using Microsoft excel and SPSS. Out of 87 MDR-TB patients, 57 (65.5%) were males
and 30 (34.4%) were females. Depression was significantly associated with the unfavourable
treatment outcomes. On statistical analysis, it was observed that 50.6% of the patients were
depressed and unfavourable outcome was significantly associated with depression (p=0.005) in
MDR-TB patients.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Subjects: | Pustakas > Medical Science |
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| Date Deposited: | 17 Nov 2023 04:28 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Nov 2023 04:28 |
| URI: | http://archive.pcbmb.org/id/eprint/1438 |
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