KEY QUESTIONS | |
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1. What is a normal day at your work like? What actions do you take? Can you describe a little of your activities in assisting patients with resistant TB? How much time in this role? | |
2. When talking about MDR-TB, what are its causes? | |
3. How has your experience been with caring/assisting patients with MDR-TB? What were the difficulties encountered? | |
4. In your personal experiences, can the economic, social and educational levels of patients influence the illness? What have you experienced in your daily life? | |
5. Can the difficulty of patients’ access to the health system contribute to the development of MDR-TB? Do you think that the organization of services can influence the treatment and development of MDR-TB? | |
6. In your personal experience, have conditions, such as chronic diseases, alcohol consumption, smoking or use of other substances, influenced this outcome? | |
7. Are health services prepared to deal with the problem of MDR-TB? | |
8. Does the social protection network (family grant, social benefits, and basic food basket) impact the individual with MDR-TB? How does the presence or absence of these benefits influence MDR-TB cases? | |
9. In your opinion, what can be done to prevent MDR-TB cases in the state of São Paulo? | |
10. In your opinion, how would an assistance network for people with MDR-TB be provided? | |
11. Considering the COVID-19 pandemic, do you think this will interfere with the morbidity and mortality picture from MDR-TB? Why? | |
12. In your opinion, what advances have been achieved so far for the control of MDR-TB? |