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    Total family risk and treatment adherence in tuberculosis patients seeking care at public first-level health centers in the Rímac district, 2018
    (Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2019-05-08) Ocon Tribeño, Lady; Perez Cahuaza, Gaby; Matta Solis, Hernán Hugo
    Objective: Determine the total family risk and adherence to treatment in people with tuberculosis who attend public health facilities at the first level of care in the Rímac district, 2018. Materials and methods: The study is focused on a quantitative, descriptive type in based on a population of 260 patients treated in the National Health Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis. Two questionnaires were used as instruments: The Total Family Risk (TFR), created by Pilar Amaya, and the Morisky Adherence questionnaire. The technique used was the survey. Results: It was determined that, with respect to Total Family Risk, 52.3% of patients belong to families that are at low risk; 45.4%, to threatened families and 2.3%, to high-risk families. Regarding the variable Adherence to Pharmacological Treatment, 55.4% of patients are adherent and 44.6% are non-adherent. Conclusions: In the total family risk variable there are about half of threatened families, which could be related to the services and practices dimension, since it obtained a higher percentage than the others; Regarding the adherence variable, more than half of patients adhere to the treatment.