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Wong YJ, Ng KY, Lee SWH. How can we improve latent tuberculosis infection management using behaviour change wheel: a systematic review. J Public Health (Oxf) 2023; 45:e447-e466. [PMID: 37147919 PMCID: PMC10470485 DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdad051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2022] [Revised: 01/08/2023] [Accepted: 04/05/2023] [Indexed: 05/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND To ensure the effective delivery of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) care, it is vital to overcome potential challenges in LTBI management. This systematic review aims to identify the barriers and interventions to improve LTBI management using the Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation-Behaviour (COM-B) model and Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW). METHODS A systematic literature search was performed on five electronic databases from database inception to 3 November 2021. A two-step technique was used in the data synthesis process: (i) the barriers of LTBI management were identified using the COM-B model, followed by (ii) mapping of intervention functions from BCW to address the identified barriers. RESULTS Forty-seven eligible articles were included in this review. The findings highlighted the need for a multifaceted approach in tackling the barriers in LTBI management across the public, provider and system levels. The barriers were summarized into suboptimal knowledge and misperception of LTBI, as well as stigma and psychosocial burden, which could be overcome with a combination of intervention functions, targeting education, environment restructuring, persuasion, modelling, training, incentivization and enablement. CONCLUSIONS The remedial strategies using BCW to facilitate policy reforms in LTBI management could serve as a value-added initiative in the global tuberculosis control and prevention program.
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- Yen Jun Wong
- School of Pharmacy, Monash University Malaysia, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
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- School of Pharmacy, Monash University Malaysia, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
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- School of Pharmacy, Monash University Malaysia, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
- School of Pharmacy, Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus, Jalan Taylors, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
- Center of Global Health, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Wang F, Ren Y, Liu K, Peng Y, Chen X, Chen B, Jiang J. Large gap between attitude and action in tuberculosis preventive treatment among tuberculosis-related healthcare workers in eastern China. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2022; 12:991400. [PMID: 36275034 PMCID: PMC9585158 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.991400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2022] [Accepted: 09/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at a high risk for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) because of occupational exposure, and the attitudes and behaviors of frontline tuberculosis (TB)-related HCWs toward preventive treatment of LTBI in eastern China remain unknown. This study aimed to explore the attitudes and actual behaviors of TB-related HCWs toward TB preventive treatment (TPT) and to analyze the relevant factors influencing the attitudes of HCWs. A stratified random sample of 28 TB-designated hospitals was selected in Zhejiang Province, China. All TB-related HCWs in the selected hospitals were recruited to answer questionnaires and were tested for LTBI by the TB interferon gamma release assay. TPT use was assessed two years after the survey. Univariate analysis and binary logistic regression models were used to analyze the factors influencing the TPT intention of HCWs. A total of 318 TB-related HCWs were recruited from 28 TB-designated hospitals; 62.3% of them showed positive attitudes toward TPT, while the rest were reluctant to treat positive LTBI prophylactically. binary logistic regression analysis revealed that the factors influencing the attitudes of HCWs were mainly education level, household income, history of alcohol consumption, and workplace. The IGRA test found that 35.2% (112/318) of HCWs tested positive for LTBI. Most people refused treatment because of drug side effects, followed by the belief that treatment was ineffective, wanting to wait until the onset of the disease, and that it was too much trouble to take the medication. According to the results of a follow-up survey, only one of these HCWs underwent TPT, and the consistency rate of attitudes and behaviors was 36.6% (41/112). This study reveals different attitudes toward TPT among TB-associated HCWs in eastern China and a large gap between attitudes and actual action. The management of HCWs with LTBI still needs further strengthening.
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- Fei Wang
- Tuberculosis Control Department, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- School of Public Health, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
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- Tuberculosis Control Department, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Tuberculosis Control Department, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Tuberculosis Control Department, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
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- Tuberculosis Control Department, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Bin Chen, ; Jianmin Jiang,
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- Tuberculosis Control Department, Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou, China
- School of Public Health, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Bin Chen, ; Jianmin Jiang,
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Wingfield T, Tovar MA, Huff D, Boccia D, Saunders MJ, Datta S, Montoya R, Ramos E, Lewis JJ, Gilman RH, Evans C. Beyond pills and tests: addressing the social determinants of tuberculosis. Clin Med (Lond) 2016; 16:s79-s91. [PMID: 27956446 PMCID: PMC6329567 DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.16-6-s79] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Poverty drives tuberculosis (TB) rates but the approach to TB control has been disproportionately biomedical. In 2015, the World Health Organization's End TB Strategy explicitly identified the need to address the social determinants of TB through socio-economic interventions. However, evidence concerning poverty reduction and cost mitigation strategies is limited. The research described in this article, based on the 2016 Royal College of Physicians Linacre Lecture, aimed to address this knowledge gap. The research was divided into two phases: the first phase was an analysis of a cohort study identifying TB-related costs of TB-affected households and creating a clinically relevant threshold above which those costs became catastrophic; the second was the design, implementation and evaluation of a household randomised controlled evaluation of socio-economic support to improve access to preventive therapy, increase TB cure, and mitigate the effects of catastrophic costs. The first phase showed TB remains a disease of people living in poverty - 'free' TB care was unaffordable for impoverished TB-affected households and incurring catastrophic costs was associated with as many adverse TB treatment outcomes (including death, failure of treatment, lost to follow-up and TB recurrence) as multidrug resistant (MDR) TB. The second phase showed that, in TB-affected households receiving socio-economic support, household contacts were more likely to start and adhere to TB preventive therapy, TB patients were more likely to be cured and households were less likely to incur catastrophic costs. In impoverished Peruvian shantytowns, poverty remains inextricably linked with TB and incurring catastrophic costs predicted adverse TB treatment outcome. A novel socio-economic support intervention increased TB preventive therapy uptake, improved TB treatment success and reduced catastrophic costs. The impact of the intervention on TB control is currently being evaluated by the Community Randomized Evaluation of a Socio-economic Intervention to Prevent TB (CRESIPT) study.
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- Tom Wingfield
- Address for correspondence: Dr T Wingfield, The Ronald Ross Building, 8 West Derby Street, Liverpool L69 7BE, UK.
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Pathak V, Harrington Z, Dobler CC. Attitudes towards preventive tuberculosis treatment among hospital staff. PeerJ 2016; 4:e1738. [PMID: 26966667 PMCID: PMC4782724 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2015] [Accepted: 02/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Background. Healthcare workers have an increased risk of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), but previous studies suggested that they might be reluctant to accept preventive tuberculosis (TB) treatment. We aimed to examine doctors’ and nurses’ experience of TB screening and to explore their attitudes towards preventive TB treatment. Methods. We conducted a survey among randomly selected healthcare workers at a tertiary hospital in Sydney, Australia, using a paper-based questionnaire. Results. A total of 1,304 questionnaires were distributed and 311 (24%) responses were received. The majority of hospital staff supported preventive TB treatment in health care workers with evidence of latent TB infection (LTBI) in general (74%, 164/223) and for them personally (81%, 198/244) while 80 and 53 healthcare workers respectively had no opinion on the topic. Staff working in respiratory medicine were significantly less likely to support preventive TB treatment in health care workers in general or for them personally if they would have evidence of LTBI compared to other specialties (p = 0.001). Only 13% (14/106) of respondents with evidence of LTBI indicated that they had been offered preventive TB treatment. Twenty-one percent (64/306) of respondents indicated that they did not know the difference between active and latent TB. Among staff who had undergone testing for LTBI, only 33% (75/230) felt adequately informed about the meaning of their test results. Discussion. Hospital staff in general had positive attitudes towards preventive TB treatment, but actual treatment rates were low and perceived knowledge about LTBI was insufficient among a significant proportion of staff. The gap between high support for preventive TB treatment among staff and low treatment rates needs to be addressed. Better education on the concept of LTBI and the meaning of screening test results is required.
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- Vidya Pathak
- South Western Sydney Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- South Western Sydney Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- South Western Sydney Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Yates F, Janakiraman A, Headly A, Linkin DR, Vinnard C. Attitudes towards latent tuberculosis among physicians in training: the role of BCG vaccination. J Community Health 2015; 40:364-6. [PMID: 25236656 DOI: 10.1007/s10900-014-9944-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Prior work has demonstrated that international medical graduates physicians are less likely to recommend treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) for themselves or their patients. Our objective was to measure differences in LTBI treatment attitudes among resident physicians when diagnosis is established with a positive tuberculin skin test (TST), as compared with a positive interferon gamma release assay (IGRA), and to determine whether a resident physician's personal history of Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination was associated with these attitudes. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of Internal Medicine resident physicians at two different training sites. Based on the country and year of birth, each respondent was assigned a putative BCG vaccination status based on a query of the BCG World Atlas (bcgworldatlas.org). We then asked whether the respondent agreed or disagreed with offering LTBI treatment in several clinical scenarios. Among their patients with a history of BCG vaccination, we found that resident physicians were least likely to agree with LTBI treatment for a first-ever positive TST, and most likely to agree with treatment for a converted IGRA. Contrary to our hypothesis, a resident physician's personal history of BCG vaccination was not associated with their LTBI treatment attitudes. Resident physicians broadly disagreed with LTBI treatment guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Educational interventions designed to improve adherence to LTBI treatment recommendations should be broadly implemented, without regard to the educational or cultural backgrounds of physician.
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- Franklin Yates
- Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 N 15th Street, MS 461, New College Building 6314, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, USA
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Meireles JM, Gaio R, Duarte R. Factors influencing tuberculosis screening in healthcare workers in Portugal. Eur Respir J 2014; 45:834-8. [PMID: 25323239 DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00149314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- José Moura Meireles
- Dept of Internal Medicine, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Porto, Portugal EPIUnit Institute of Public Health, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Mathematics Dept, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Centre of Mathematics, University of Porto, Portugal
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- EPIUnit Institute of Public Health, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Chest Disease Centre, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
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Dobler CC, Luu Q, Marks GB. What patient factors predict physicians' decision not to treat latent tuberculosis infection in tuberculosis contacts? PLoS One 2013; 8:e76552. [PMID: 24098794 PMCID: PMC3786986 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2013] [Accepted: 08/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Objective The study aimed to determine factors that are associated with physicians’ decision to offer treatment for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in contacts of patients with tuberculosis. Methods We performed a nested case-control study in a cohort of contacts of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis who had a tuberculin skin test (TST) ≥ 10 mm. Cases were those who were offered treatment for LTBI. Controls were randomly selected from those who were not offered treatment for LTBI by the reviewing physician. Odds ratios were estimated by multivariate logistic regression. Results There were 195 cases and 279 controls. The following factors were significantly (positively or negatively) associated with being offered LTBI treatment in the multivariate analysis: female gender (OR 2.9; 95% CI 1.6–5.5), TST conversion (OR 3.9; 2.0–7.9), TST > 20 mm (OR 4.1; 1.8–9.1, for TST of 21–30 mm and OR 7.9; 2.6–23.8, for TST >30 mm), sputum smear positive index case (OR 12.7; 4.5–36.1), being overseas-born and immigration more than 2 years ago (OR 0.1; 0.06–0.3), being a health care worker (OR 0.2; 0.1–0.6), being a non-household contact of the TB index case (OR 0.3; 0.2–0.6) and age >35 years (OR 0.2; 0.1–0.5 for age 35 to 54.9 years and OR 0.04; 0.01–0.2 for age ≥55 years). Previous BCG vaccine and chest x-ray findings were not significantly associated with physicians’ decision to offer treatment for LTBI. Conclusions Most factors that influenced physicians’ decisions on treatment for LTBI were based on evidence of an association with risk of developing TB or risk of having an adverse reaction to treatment for LTBI. However, the decreased likelihood of offering treatment for LTBI to people born overseas, men and health care workers, was apparently not based on any evidence of risk. Efforts should be made to ensure that these groups are given access to treatment for LTBI.
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- Claudia C. Dobler
- Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and Central Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Liverpool Hospital, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Liverpool Hospital, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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- Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and Central Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Liverpool Hospital, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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