Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global health problem.
It causes ill-health among millions of people each year and ranks
alongside the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as a leading
cause of death worldwide. The study was planned to assess treatment
outcome among tuberculosis patients registered in year 2013
at Tuberculosis Unit (TU), Maharani Hospital, Jagdalpur, district
Bastar in Chhattisgarh.
Materials and Methods: It was a record based analysis for year
2013 data from TU Jagdalpur, District Bastar, Chhattisgarh, for
year 2013. Data entry and analysis was done by using STATA/SE
14.1 software.
Results: Overall rate of unfavorable treatment outcome among 468
TB patients was 96(20.5%). Factors associated with unfavorable
outcome were age more than 40 years (P< 0.001), male gender (P
0.048) and retreatment cases (P <0.001) .Death rate was higher
4(4.3%) among patients of Category II. Higher default rate were
noted in New Smear negative 40 (18.6%) and retreatment
26(27.4%) and HIV positive TB patients.
Conclusions: Age more than 40 years, male sex, HIV positive and
retreatment category were factors associated with unfavorable
outcome .Defaulters were higher in new smear negative and retreatment
cases of TB patient in the present study.