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The perspectives of patients and health professionals regarding the tuberculosis control programme in Recife, Brazil: a contribution to evaluation

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datacite.subject.fosCiências Médicas
datacite.subject.sdg03:Saúde de Qualidade
dc.contributor.authorBezerra, Simone Santos
dc.contributor.authorGuerreiro, Mara Pereira
dc.contributor.authorPessoa, Nathany França
dc.contributor.authorSilva, Maria Gabriela Pereira da
dc.contributor.authorBarros, Mirela Galvão de
dc.contributor.authorGomes, João José Ferreira
dc.contributor.authorAthayde, Maria Paula
dc.contributor.authorAuad, Rodrigo Zeymer
dc.contributor.authorSobrinho, José Lamartine Soares
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-17T14:00:43Z
dc.date.available2025-07-17T14:00:43Z
dc.date.issued2019-06
dc.description.abstractThe study objective is to describe patients and professionals’ perspectives on the Tuberculosis Control Program (PCT) in Recife, Brazil, contributing to the program evaluation. A cross-sectional study was conducted in three purposively selected sites, representing the three levels of care in the public health system. All eligible PCT patients in sites A, B and C were invited to participate (n = 123). Physicians, nurses, pharmacists and community health agents providing care to PCT patients in these sites, plus their managers, were purposively selected. Data were collected by means of interviews with 44 patients and a questionnaire to 24 professionals. Instruments encompassed previously published items to capture stakeholders’ perspectives (16 and 12 closed-questions, respectively), grouped into categories. The overall evaluation by patients was unsatisfactory (median score 35%; third quartile below 50%; interquartile range 21.9%). Analysis of scores by categories showed that opinions about organizational accessibility were significantly worse than about economic and geographical accessibility, taken together. Overall the median score attributed by professionals was 52% (third quartile below 65%). Professionals had significantly worse opinions about diagnosis, clinical and laboratory assistance. Patients and professionals’ perspectives highlight potential opportunities for improvement. Our findings can be used by managers as a starting point for shared decision-making, potentially contributing to a better performance of the PCT in Recife and, consequently, reducing the risk posed by tuberculosis.eng
dc.identifier.citationBezerra, S. S., Guerreiro, M. P., Pessoa, N. F., Silva, M. G. P. d., Barros, M. G. d., Gomes, J. J. F., Athayde, M. P., Auad, R. Z., & Soares Sobrinho, J. L. (2019). The Perspectives of Patients and Health Professionals Regarding the Tuberculosis Control Programme in Recife, Brazil: A Contribution to Evaluation. Pharmacy, 7(2), 70. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy7020070
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/pharmacy7020070
dc.identifier.issn2226-4787
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/58098
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy7020070
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjecttuberculosis
dc.subjectprogram and health projects evaluation
dc.subjectpatients’ perspectives
dc.subjectprofessionals’ perspectives
dc.titleThe perspectives of patients and health professionals regarding the tuberculosis control programme in Recife, Brazil: a contribution to evaluationeng
dc.typecontribution to journal
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.issue2
oaire.citation.startPage70
oaire.citation.titlePharmacy
oaire.citation.volume7
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85

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