TY - JOUR
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adult
KW - Attitude to Health
KW - Drug Therapy, Combination
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Leprostatic Agents
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - National Health Programs
KW - Philippines
KW - Primary Prevention
KW - Risk Factors
KW - Rural Population
KW - Social Perception
KW - Surveys and Questionnaires
KW - Treatment Refusal
KW - World Health Organization
AU - Honrado E
AU - Tallo V
AU - Balis AC
AU - Chan GP
AU - Cho SN
AB - <p>The success of current World Health Organization (WHO) key strategy for leprosy elimination (ie, multidrug therapy [MDT] regimen) depends largely on the efficiency of health care delivery services and patient compliance. A high rate of noncompliance with this regimen has serious implications for the leprosy control program because it can set the stage for the emergence of drug resistance, eventually resulting in treatment failure and failure of the program. A community-based descriptive study using pretested interviews conducted in 12 leprosy endemic areas in Cebu, Philippines, showed that the noncompliance rate with the WHO-MDT regimen among 233 study subjects was 30%. The causes of noncompliance are drug-related, health care provider-triggered, or patient-inducted, or some combination of these. Recommendations on strategic interventions to obviate the cause for noncompliance are presented.</p>
BT - Dermatologic clinics
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18346553?dopt=Abstract
DA - 2008 Apr
DO - 10.1016/j.det.2007.11.007
IS - 2
J2 - Dermatol Clin
LA - eng
N2 - <p>The success of current World Health Organization (WHO) key strategy for leprosy elimination (ie, multidrug therapy [MDT] regimen) depends largely on the efficiency of health care delivery services and patient compliance. A high rate of noncompliance with this regimen has serious implications for the leprosy control program because it can set the stage for the emergence of drug resistance, eventually resulting in treatment failure and failure of the program. A community-based descriptive study using pretested interviews conducted in 12 leprosy endemic areas in Cebu, Philippines, showed that the noncompliance rate with the WHO-MDT regimen among 233 study subjects was 30%. The causes of noncompliance are drug-related, health care provider-triggered, or patient-inducted, or some combination of these. Recommendations on strategic interventions to obviate the cause for noncompliance are presented.</p>
PY - 2008
SP - 221
EP - 9
EP - vi
T2 - Dermatologic clinics
TI - Noncompliance with the world health organization-multidrug therapy among leprosy patients in Cebu, Philippines: its causes and implications on the leprosy control program.
VL - 26
SN - 0733-8635
ER -