FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE OUTCOMES IN THE TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS IN PEOPLE MONITORED BY PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

Tuberculosis (TB) represents a challenge that go through the history of mankind. The monitoring in the Primary Health Care (PHC) consists in an important mechanism of accomplishment of the policies on TB, since it provides greater longitudinal care relationship (longitudinality) and closeness to the infected individual. Objective: To analyze TB cases attended by the PHC in Sergipe. Outline: It was performed a retrospective cohort of the TB cases attended by the PHC in Sergipe between 2014 and 2018. Results: 2,172 TB cases attended by the PHC in Sergipe were included, of which 283 (13.0%) abandoned the treatment, 1813 (83.5%) progressed to cure and 76 (3.5%) to death. The factors associated with treatment abandonment were: male, age range of 20 to 29 years, alcoholics, people with diabetes mellitus and persons deprived of liberty. In relation to the mortality, higher rates were found in: male, age range of 70 years and above, illiterate and people with diabetes mellitus. Implications: Conditions of social vulnerability and comorbidities impacted mortality, as well as abandonment of TB treatment.