Compliance of home chemotherapy and its influencing factors among tuberculosis patients

ObjectiveTo investigate the compliance of home chemotherapy and its influencing factors among infectious tuberculosis patients.MethodsWe used stratified random sampling to choose 720 infectious tuberculosis patients with home chemotherapy from 6 areas in Shandong province.The investigation was carried out with a self-administered questionnaire to collect information on compliance of home chemotherapy and its influencing factors.ResultsThe patients were 506 men(70.3%)and 214 women(19.7%).Among the patients only 43.9%complied with the home chemotherapy and 56.1%did not comply with the chemotherapy.Compared with the patients of divorced or windowed,the married patients had a better compliance of home chemotherapy (odds ratio OR=0.490,P=0.026).Patients with urban worker's medical insurance had a higher incompliance rate compared with those with new rural cooperative medical system (OR=2.415,P=0.003).The patients registered in rural areas had a higher incompliance compared with those registered in urban areas (OR=2.019 P=0.044).ConclusionMore than a half of the infectious tuberculosis patients in 6 urban and rural areas of Shandong province did not comply with home chemotherapy and marriage status,medical care and registered living areas related to the compliance of home chemotherapy.