Treatment Outcome of Tuberculosis and Associated Factors at Gimbi Town Health Facilities Western Oromia, Ethiopia

Abstract

Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious public health problem in the developing countries. Early diagnosis, effective treatment and continues assessment of treatment outcome are important indicators of TB control. Thus, the main objective of this study was to assess the treatment outcome of tuberculosis and associated factors at Gimbi town Health Facilities from Method: A facility based descriptive cross-sectional study on treatment outcome of all forms of tuberculosis was conducted from March 10th to 25th, 2014. Data extraction sheet which was adopted from standard unit TB registration was used to collect basic information on the profile and treatment outcome of tuberculosis patients. Finally, the collected data were entered to master sheet and then analyzed. The result of the study was presented using table, figure and with narrative descriptions. Epi info version 3.5.4 was used to analyze the data. The association between variables was calculated using Chi-square test and p-value of <0.05 was considered as significant. Result and discussion: This study revealed that a total of 120 (74 %) patients have satisfactory treatment outcome and the rest 42 (26%) were with bad outcome (defaulter, Died, treatment failure and transfer out). About 33 smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients were registered. The cure rate and treatment success rate was 66.7% and 69.7% respectively treatment success. Co morbidity with HIV infection, treatment regimen and place of residence have significant impact on TB treatment out come with p-value (P<0.05). Conclusion and recommendation: In this study, the cure rate and treatment success rate for new and retreatment PTB cases were low when compared to WHO and national target to be achieved by newly recommended DOTs strategy for TB treatment. Special attention should be given HIV positive TB patients and patients from rural residency increase the cure rate and treatment success rate