The evaluation of the integrated client-centred intervention programme (ICIP) for clients with MDR-TB at DP Marais Hospital in the Western Cape
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Date
2020
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University of Western Cape
Abstract
Although TB is a curable communicable disease, poor adherence to TB treatment is a major
barrier to TB control in South Africa as it increases the risks of morbidity, mortality and drug
resistance at individual and community level. As a result, multi-drug-resistant TB (MDR-TB)
has become a serious public health issue. Underpinning this study was the assumption that a
client-centred approach to treatment of MDR-TB clients, with a hospital programme which
adopts an integrated multidisciplinary approach that is client-centred and is not purely biomedically driven, would improve treatment outcomes of MDR-TB clients.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD
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Multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis, Client-centred intervention, Medical dominance, Interdisciplinary, Programme