A Comparison Study about Factors Responsible for Compliance of Medical Treatment among Complained and Non-complained Tuberculosis Patients, Urmia, 1997.

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Abstract: Introduction: Tuberculosis has been one of the leading cause of mortality in human community for many centuries. An important part in treatment of these patients is having confidence that all these patients finish the period of their medical treatment. It has been estimated that near 40% of these patients don’t continue their medical treatment before finishing the period of their treatment. According to these facts in this study, researcher evaluated causes that lead to some of these patients don’t accept their medical treatment in patients that have referred to the health centers in Urmia. Methodology: This was a descriptive study. Method of collecting data was interview and collecting data tool was questionnaire. Studying population was all patients with pulmonary TB that had been referred to the health centers in Urmia. Method of sampling was simple and purposive sampling. Interview sheet had 8 parts and consisted of 53 questions that evaluate socio-demographic health beliefs, social support. Knowledge and self-efficacy of subjects. Results of study analyzed with Chi-squire method. Results: Finding of this study revealed that there is a significant statistical relation between compliance of medical treatment and health belief and self-efficacy. On contrary there was no significant statistical relation between knowledge, socio-demographic and compliance of medical treatment. Discussion: Results of this study revealed that raising in individual self-efficacy and having good health belief lead to raising in compliance whereas rate of social support, sex, education, marital status, income, age, occupation and knowledge haven’t any relation with compliance of medical treatment.