Table 4 Perceptions toward treatment
TB treatment items | Frequency | Percent | |
|---|---|---|---|
Most important reason why some people delay going to the clinic | They are afraid they will be told they are HIV positive | 640 | 63.0 |
They are afraid that people will talk about their visit to the clinic | 124 | 12.2 | |
They don't want to cough into the specimen bottle | 64 | 6.3 | |
They are afraid that TB treatment will interfere with their social lives | 64 | 6.3 | |
There are long queues at the clinics | 40 | 3.9 | |
They are afraid they will lose their job/income | 35 | 3.4 | |
They are afraid that TB treatment will be unpleasant and difficult | 29 | 2.9 | |
They first wish to consult a traditional healer | 20 | 2.0 | |
Total | 1016 | 100 | |
Location where most TB patients prefer to take their daily treatment | In the TB hospital where the nurses care of them | 400 | 39.4 |
In the clinic - they visit the clinic every morning to take their medicine | 339 | 33.4 | |
At home and a DOTS volunteer visits them every day to bring the medicine | 167 | 16.5 | |
At home/work and a family collects their medicine for them | 108 | 10.7 | |
Total | 1014 | 100 |