Analysis of reasons for treatment droup out:: the case of hansen's disease patient of the Health Unit at Carapina/ES
The drop out among leprosy patient is a serious problem for public health professionals. This study wishes to analyse the patients reasons for the default and/or drop out of treatment. It's about a retrospective study involving a sample of 42 patients who default and/or drop out of the treatmen...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2000 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Instituto Lauro de Souza Lima (ILSL) |
| Repositorio: | Hansenologia Internationalis (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.saude.sp.gov.br:article/36437 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.saude.sp.gov.br/hansenologia/article/view/36437 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Hanseníase Abandono de tratamento Aderência Motivação Leprosy Drop out of the treatment Adherence Motivation |
| Sumario: | The drop out among leprosy patient is a serious problem for public health professionals. This study wishes to analyse the patients reasons for the default and/or drop out of treatment. It's about a retrospective study involving a sample of 42 patients who default and/or drop out of the treatment in a period from 1994 to 1996. It had been used semiestructure guide of interviews to pick informations. The answers had been groupedin categories of intrinsic reasons and extrinsic reasons that characterizes droup out and/or default. The relation between default and drop out was: Multibacilar Leprosy (MB) 0,8:1; Paucibacilar Leprosy (PB) 0,7:1. The drop out was justified by intrinsic reasons among Paucibacilar (PB) patients and among Multibacilar (MB) patients the default was justified by extrinsic reasons. In accordance with the informations above there is necessary a deeper work to orient the Control Program of Leprosy. |
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