Control measures to trace ≤ 15-year-old contacts of index cases of active pulmonary tuberculosis

Autor:	Cláudia Di Lorenzo Oliveira, Angelita Cristine de Melo, Lílian Ruth Silva de Oliveira, Emerson Lopes Froede, Paulo Camargos
Jazyk:	English<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Tuberculose pulmonar\epidemiologia Tuberculose pulmonar\prevenção & controle Busca de comunicante Diseases of the respiratory system RC705-779
Zdroj:	Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, Vol 41, Iss 5, Pp 449-453 (2015)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1806-3756 1806-3713
DOI:	10.1590/S1806-37132015000000073
Popis:	This was descriptive study carried out in a medium-sized Brazilian city. In ≤ 15-year-old contacts of index cases of active pulmonary tuberculosis, we assessed compliance with the Brazilian national guidelines for tuberculosis control. We interviewed 43 contacts and their legal guardians. Approximately 80% of the contacts were not assessed by the municipal public health care system, and only 21% underwent tuberculin skin testing. The results obtained with the Chi-square Automatic Interaction Detector method suggest that health care teams have a biased attitude toward assessing such contacts and underscore the need for training health professionals regarding tuberculosis control programs.
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