Questions | Satisfactory answers | National guidelines recommendations |
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Knowledge | ||
There is TB disease and TB infection (or latent TB). Do you know what the differences are? | 48 (36%) | self-explaining |
How can one say that the person is infected with the tuberculosis bacillus? | 50 (37%) | positive TST or IGRA |
How do you prevent that a household contact should be infected? | 103 (76%) | cough hygiene, ventilated house |
How do you prevent a person once infected from becoming ill? | 65 (48%) | preventive isoniazid therapy (6–9 months) |
According to the NTP, what intra-household contacts should receive treatment for TB prevention? | 38 (28%) | all with positive TST/IGRA and normal chest X-ray |
In the absence of available PPD, what intra-household contacts should receive treatment for TB prevention? | 3 (2%) | HIV-infected individuals and children (< 16) |
Attitudes/Perceptions | ||
Do you think it is important for a child who lives with a patient with active TB to be screened for active TB? | 134 (99%) | yes |
Do you think it is important for a child who lives with a patient with active TB to be screened for latent TB? | 129 (96%) | yes |
Do you think it is important for an adult living with an active TB patient to be screened for active TB? | 131 (97%) | yes |
Do you think it is important for an adult living with an active TB patient to be screened for latent TB? | 133 (99%) | yes |
Do you think the health unit you work in should be responsible for investigating contacts who live with a patient with active TB, or should they do it elsewhere? | 103 (76%) | depends on the clinic |
What are the difficulties of this clinic to evaluate a contact that lives with a patient with TB disease? | 92 (68%) | depends on the clinic |
Sometimes parents / guardians may not bring them to the investigation. When that happens, what do you think are the main reasons? | 97 (72%) | see Additional file 2: Table S2 |
Sometimes adult contacts do not come to the unit to be investigated. Which do you think are the main reasons? | 114 (84%) | see Additional file 2: Table S2 |
Practices | ||
What do you do for an adult, contact of a patient living in the same household who had a recent TB diagnosis? | 96 (71%) | refer to investigation |
What do you do for a child, contact of a patient living in the same household who had a recent TB diagnosis? | 109 (81%) | refer to investigation |
What do you do if a child using isoniazid for the treatment of latent TB has nausea? | 128 (95%) | change timing of medication uptake and refer to the nurse or doctor |
What do you do if adult using isoniazid for the treatment of latent TB has nausea? | 135 (100%) | |
What do you do if a child using isoniazid for the treatment of latent TB goes yellow? | 127 (94%) | suspend medication and refer to the nurse or doctor |
What do you do if a adult using isoniazid for the treatment of latent TB goes yellow? | 126 (93%) |