Social portrait of a tuberculosis patient in Republic of Tyva

Relevance. In the Republic of Tyva, despite the ongoing anti-tuberculosis measures, the epidemiological situation of tuberculosis remains unfavorable. Socio-psychological assistance in the rehabilitation of tuberculosis patients significantly increases the medical effectiveness of chemotherapy and, in this regard, the study of the «social portrait» of a tuberculosis patient is an urgent task.

The goal of the research: to identify the «social portrait» of a patient with a recurrence of tuberculosis receiving treatment at the State Budgetary Healthcare Institution of the Republic of Tyva «Tuberculosis Dispensary» during the 1st half of 2022.

Materials and methods: for retrospective analysis, materials from outpatient records and medical histories of patients taken to the dispensary of an antitubercular dispensary with a recurrence of the tuberculosis process were used for 6 months of 2022. In the analysis of gender and age composition, social status, place of residence and clinical structure.

Results. Based on a retrospective analysis of data on the gender and age composition, social status, place of residence of 61 tuberculosis patients, from the materials of outpatient charts and patient histories using statistical and sociological research methods, a «social portrait» of a patient with a relapse of tuberculosis treated in the Tuberculosis Dispensary of the Republic of Tyva during the 1st half of 2022 was compiled: this is a man 49-50 years old, not working, having no concomitant diseases, mostly living in rural areas. Тhis patient does not pass fluorographic examination two years or more, mostly in the anamnesis who had tuberculosis of the lungs. Тhis patient with multidrug-resistant pathogen, this patient has the disease was detected an active method of detection (radiological or fluorographic method) when conducting preventive examinations.

Conclusion. Тhe main clinical form when taking on dispensary registration this is infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis in the decay phase and in the decay phase. Mostly such patients receive treatment in the conditions of an antitubercular dispensary.

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