title: [Main causes of non-compliance with pulmonary tuberculosis treatment].
abstract: One hundred rural patient with pulmonary tuberculosis and 74 urban patients were included in the study in order to study the main causes of non-compliance. Crude cumulative incidencia was 42% (73/164). Those factors with the strongest association with non-compliance, independently of its association with other factors, were to live in rural areas (OR 0 10.4; p < 0.001), had not gone to school (analfabet) (OR = 4.5; p < 0.001), and last more than an hour to reach the medical care unit (protector) (OR = 0.40; p = 0.07). No association was found with socioeconomic factors, neither with the patient's knowledge of the disease. Identifying those factors related to non-compliance is important, since non-compliance occurs in the very firsts days of treatment, when the shortage of treatment or giving fewer pills do not work at all. To get a better medial control may be a good way to reach the expected control of the disease.
authors.affiliation: Curso de Especialización en Salud Pública, Culiacán.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Manjarréz Morales
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Serrano Montes
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cano Pérez
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Verduzco Guerrero
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Escandón Romero
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Escobedo de la Peña
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012424:Rural Population; D016312:Treatment Refusal; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000188:drug therapy*; D014505:Urban Population
vernacular_title: Principales causas de abandono del tratamiento contra la tuberculosis pulmonar.