title: Increasing return compliance in a tuberculosis detection drive.
abstract: This study explored the role of subject commitment as a variable for increasing compliance rates in a university-sponsored tuberculosis (TB) detection drive. Return rates for reaction readings were compared between those subjects who had made an overt commitment to return (either a verbal or a verbal plus written agreement) and those subjects who were exposed to a standardized, no commitment procedure. Return rates under both commitment conditions significantly increased. Contrary to expectation, subjects with a known family history of  TB were found to be a high-risk group for noncompliance. For this group, obtaining both verbal and written agreement from subjects appeared to be the most efficacious procedure to increase compliance.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010349:Patient Compliance; D012306:Risk; D012737:Sex Factors; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000235:genetics; D044465:White People