TY - JOUR AU - Yellappa, Vijayashree AU - Lefèvre, Pierre AU - Battaglioli, Tullia AU - Narayanan, Devadasan AU - Van der Stuyft, Patrick PY - 2016 DA - 2016/07/19 TI - Coping with tuberculosis and directly observed treatment: a qualitative study among patients from South India JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 283 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - In India, the Revised National TB control programme (RNTCP) offers free diagnosis and treatment for tuberculosis (TB), based on the Directly Observed Treatment Short course (DOTS) strategy. We conducted a qualitative study to explore the experience and consequences of having TB on patients enrolled in DOTS and their caretakers in Tumkur district, located in a southern state of India, Karnataka. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1545-9 DO - 10.1186/s12913-016-1545-9 ID - Yellappa2016 ER -