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Govind Prasad, Saxena P, Mathur GP & Pamra SP |
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An appraisal of different procedures of home visiting
for reducing drug default - an interim report. |
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INDIAN J TB 1977, 23, 107-109. |
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The study was conducted to determine if homevisiting
made any difference in the regularity of drug-taking, in the domiciliary
treatment area of the NDTC. All cases of pulmonary TB in this area
were included in the study. Every patients home was visited
once, within one week of starting treatment, to give routine advice,
motivate and confirm that the patient was a bonafide resident of
the area. Thereafter, the patients were randomly allocated to three
groups based on certain criteria. The regularity in drug collection
was defined as:
Drugs
collected any period
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100
Drugs which should have been collected
The interim analysis of the data shows that home
visiting definitely helps to reduce default and increase the regularity
of drug collection. Whether the policy of Preventive
visiting pays better dividends than retrieving defaulters still
remains to be seen.
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KEYWORDS: DEFAULT; HOME VISIT; INDIA |