Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
Keywords
XDR-TB, alcohol, anxiety, depression, psychosis
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.5588/pha.17.0044
Abstract
Mental disorders and alcohol/drug use worsen treatment outcomes for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), but data are lacking for extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB. We investigated the association of baseline mental disorders and alcohol/drug use on XDR-TB treatment outcomes in a retrospective study of 53 XDR-TB Peruvian patients during 2010–2012. Logistic regression estimated the odds ratios for unfavourable XDR-TB treatment outcomes. Overall treatment success was 25%. Mental disorders and drug/alcohol use were found in respectively 22.4% and 20.4% of patients; neither were associated with unfavourable treatment outcomes. Future research should explore the relationship between mental health and drug/alcohol use in XDR-TB treatment outcomes.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Public Health Action, v. 7, no. 3, p. 237-239
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Scholar Commons Citation
Scuffell, J.; Boccia, D.; Velarde, F. Garcia; Leon, Segundo R.; Raviola, G.; Lecca, Leonid; and Galea, Jerome T., "Mental Disorders and Drug/Alcohol Use in Patients Commencing Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment" (2017). Social Work Faculty Publications. 65.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/sok_facpub/65
