High non-compliance rate with anti-tuberculosis treatment: a need to shift facility-based directly observed therapy short course (DOTS) to community mobile outreach team supervision in Saudi Arabia

Table 2 Overall mean compliance score before and after three months of treatment

Variable	TB treatment group		Mean difference	95% CI		P value
	Mobile teams served	Facility- based treatment		95% CI		P value
	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)		Lower	Upper
Overall compliance perception scores
Before treatment	45.23 (3.99)	45.28 (3.69)	0.050	−1.02	1.12	0.927
After three months	58.43 (3.46)	55.55 (3.59)	2.88	3.88	1.88	< 0.001

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