Open AccessAwareness and perception regarding tuberculosis among patients and their relatives attending a tertiary care hospital in Uttarakhand: A hospital-based exploratory survey
Author(s) -
Suresh K Sharma,
Prasuna Jelly,
Ajeet Singh Bhadoria,
Kalpana Thakur,
Kanchan Gawande
Publication year - 2020
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_932_19
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , family medicine , exploratory research , health care , disease , perception , tertiary care , informed consent , alternative medicine , pathology , neuroscience , sociology , anthropology , economics , biology , economic growth
Awareness about disease among tuberculosis (TB) patients plays a crucial role toward successfully achieving targets for control, prevention, and their relatives treatment adherence and is not well studied or documented. This study sought to explore the awareness and perceptions of TB patients in a tertiary care centre in northern India.