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Table 2 Satisfactory answers about tuberculosis transmission and prevention from 135 auxiliary healthcare workers interviewed in Rio, Recife and Manaus, Brazil. 2015–2016

From: Knowledge, attitudes and practices on tuberculosis transmission and prevention among auxiliary healthcare professionals in three Brazilian high-burden cities: a cross-sectional survey

Questions

Satisfactory answers

National guidelines recommendations

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%)

  1. TB Tuberculosis, LTBI Latent tuberculosis infection, NTP National TB Program