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. 2024 Apr 27;24(1):542.
doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-10911-6.

Exploring health care providers' engagement in prevention and management of multidrug resistant Tuberculosis and its factors in Hadiya Zone health care facilities: qualitative study

Bereket Aberham Lajore #  1 , Yitagesu Habtu Aweke #  2   3 , Samuel Yohannes Ayanto #  4   5 , Menen Ayele  6   7
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Exploring health care providers' engagement in prevention and management of multidrug resistant Tuberculosis and its factors in Hadiya Zone health care facilities: qualitative study

Bereket Aberham Lajore et al. BMC Health Serv Res. .

Abstract

Background: Engagement of healthcare providers is one of the World Health Organization strategies devised for prevention and provision of patient centered care for multidrug resistant tuberculosis. The need for current research question rose because of the gaps in evidence on health professional's engagement and its factors in multidrug resistant tuberculosis service delivery as per the protocol in the prevention and management of multidrug resistant tuberculosis.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the level of health care providers' engagement in multidrug resistant tuberculosis prevention and management and influencing factors in Hadiya Zone health facilities, Southern Ethiopia.

Methods: Descriptive phenomenological qualitative study design was employed between 02 May and 09 May, 2019. We conducted a key informant interview and focus group discussions using purposely selected healthcare experts working as directly observed treatment short course providers in multidrug resistant tuberculosis treatment initiation centers, program managers, and focal persons. Verbatim transcripts were translated to English and exported to open code 4.02 for line-by-line coding and categorization of meanings into same emergent themes. Thematic analysis was conducted based on predefined themes for multidrug resistant tuberculosis prevention and management and core findings under each theme were supported by domain summaries in our final interpretation of the results. To maintain the rigors, Lincoln and Guba's parallel quality criteria of trustworthiness was used particularly, credibility, dependability, transferability, confirmability and reflexivity.

Results: Total of 26 service providers, program managers, and focal persons were participated through four focus group discussion and five key informant interviews. The study explored factors for engagement of health care providers in the prevention and management of multidrug resistant tuberculosis in five emergent themes such as patients' causes, perceived susceptibility, seeking support, professional incompetence and poor linkage of the health care facilities. Our findings also suggest that service providers require additional training, particularly in programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis.

Conclusion: The study explored five emergent themes: patient's underlying causes, seeking support, perceived susceptibility, professionals' incompetence and health facilities poor linkage. Community awareness creation to avoid fear of discrimination through provision of support for those with multidrug resistant tuberculosis is expected from health care providers using social behavioral change communication strategies. Furthermore, program managers need to follow the recommendations of World Health Organization for engaging healthcare professionals in the prevention and management of multidrug resistant tuberculosis and cascade trainings in clinical programmatic management of the disease for healthcare professionals.

Keywords: DOTS; DS-TB; Engagement; Healthcare providers; MDR-TB; XDR-TB.

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The authors declare no competing interests.

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Themes and subthemes emerged from the analysis of health professionals’ engagement in MDR-TB prevention and management study in Hadiya zone’s health facilities, 2019
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