Open AccessPsychological profile of multi drug resistance TB patients: A qualitative study from a Tertiary care Centre of Kolkata
Author(s) -
Susmita Kundu,
Rivu Basu,
Sarmistha Sarkar,
Saswati Nath,
Debabrata Biswas
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1787_20
Subject(s) - medicine , embarrassment , qualitative research , psychiatry , tuberculosis , psychological intervention , stigma (botany) , family medicine , mental health , population , disease , clinical psychology , pathology , environmental health , psychology , social science , sociology , social psychology
There has been a new challenge to the already existing threat of tuberculosis (TB) and that is drug resistance TB (DR-TB). The causal relationships between mental disorders and TB are complicated and relatively unexplored. For this reason a qualitative study was done on DR-TB patients attending R G Kar Medical College.