Table 3 Awareness, practice and enablers anticipated from practitioners on TB notification, Mysore, Karnataka, 2014 (N = 155)
From: Mandatory TB notification in Mysore city, India: Have we heard the private practitioner’s plea?
2.1 Demography | N (%) |
1 Sex | |
a) Male | 104 (67.1) |
b) Female | 51(32.9) |
2 Age group | |
a) <45 years | 61(39.4) |
b) ≥45 years | 94(60.6) |
3 Qualification | |
a) MBBS | 72(46.5) |
b) Post MBBS Specialization | 83(53.5) |
4 How many TB patients do you diagnose? | |
a) Nil | 26(16.8) |
b) 1 to 3 | 60(38.7) |
c) >3 | 36(23.2) |
d) Not recorded | 33(21.3) |
2.2 Awareness | |
1 TB notifiable disease | |
a) Yes | 141(91.0) |
b) No | 14(9.0) |
2 Source of information | |
a) Advertisements | 30(19.4) |
b) RNTCP personnel’s | 82(52.9) |
c) Authorities | 25(16.1) |
d) Others | 4(2.6) |
e) Not recorded | 14(9.0) |
3 Is Notification compulsory? | |
a) Yes | 130(83.9) |
b) No | 25(16.1) |
4 Heard of NIKSHAY? | |
a) Yes | 24(15.5) |
b) No | 127(81.9) |
c) Not recorded | 4(2.6%) |
2.3 Practice | |
1 Are you registered in NIKSHAY? | |
a) Yes | 24(15.5%) |
b) No | 127(81.9%) |
c) Not recorded | 4(2.6%) |
2 Have you notified in NIKSHAY? | |
a) Yes | 7(4.5%) |
b) No | 138(89.0%) |
c) Not recorded | 10(6.5%) |
3 Number notified in NIKSHAY? | |
a) Nil | 126(81.3%) |
b) 1 to 3 | 5(3.2%) |
c) >3 | 2(1.3%) |
d) Not recorded | 22(14.2) |
4 Reasons for not registering/notifying? | |
a) Suspect the motive | 14(9.0) |
b) Fear of losing patient | 3(1.9) |
c) Confidentiality | 2(1.3) |
d) Do not have patients | 12(7.7) |
e) Others | 24(15.5) |
f) No response | 100(64.5) |
2.4 Enablers | |
1 Kindly mention the anticipated support? | |
a) Training to register and notify | 35(22.6) |
b) Health Workers to collect data | 35(22.6) |
c) Provide free drugs | 43(27.7) |
d) feedback/acknowledgement on notification | 34(21.9) |
e) Others | 2(1.3) |
f) Not recorded | 6(3.9) |
2 Seeking written declaration by the private practitioner? | |
a) Totally unnecessary | 17(11.0) |
b) Unnecessary | 19(12.3) |
c) No comment | 42(27.1) |
d) Necessary | 77(49.7) |
3 Action to be taken against practitioners? | |
a) Totally unnecessary | 13(8.0) |
b) Unnecessary | 27(17.4) |
c) No comment | 41(26.5) |
d) Necessary | 72(46.5) |
e) Not recorded | 2(1.3) |
4 Should be backed by legal punitive measures? | |
a) Totally unnecessary | 12(7.7) |
b) Unnecessary | 18(11.6) |
c) No comment | 47(30.3) |
d) Necessary | 74(47.7) |
e) Not recorded | 4(2.6) |