An Exploratory Study To Identify Factors Affecting Non Compliance To Dots Therapy Among Tb Patients At Selected Dots Centre Vadodara

Background: Tuberculosis kills 2 people in every 3 minutes. While India has been relying on DOTStreatment to fight the disease, & also faced the recent controversy of drug resistance after a team of doctorsfrom Mumbai’s Hinduja hospital recently found cases of totally-drug resistant TB resistant to all drugs usedto treat the disease.Material and Method: In this research study a quantitative research approach with non-experimentaldescriptive survey design was used, The sampling technique was non probability purposive samplingto collect the 100 TB patient and the data collection was done by using self-structured rating scale andchecklist. Result: the study results shows that among samples the majority of the participants (68%) from21-40 year age group. Majority of the participants (86%) were male and (16%) were female. Majorityof the participants (73%) belongs to nuclear family and (27%) belongs to joint family. Majority of theparticipants (42%) working as private employ. Majority of the participants (58%) family income was around10,001-15,000/- Rs. Majority of the participants (69%) were having the primary education. Majority of theparticipants (86%) were from rural area and (14%) were from urban area. Majority of the participants (62%)were having episode for second time.It seen that out of 100 participants 31% were non compliance to DOTS therapy and 69% participants werecompliance to DOTS therapy.It shows that the factors related to non compliance to DOTS therapy among TB patient. Among total sample76.16% were non compliance to DOTS therapy due to Transportation Factors, while 75% were due to Sideeffects of DOTS therapy, 68.80% were due to Factor related to Health care facility, 79.50% were noncompliancedueto Factor related to Discrimination and stigma, 70.16% were due to Factor related to Lake oftime and 75.50 were due to other Factors.There is no significant association between the demographic variable except Family monthly income andOccupation in hence H1hypotheses is rejected.Conclusion:the purpose of the study was identify factorsaffecting non compliance to DOTS therapy among TB patients at selected DOTS centre Vadodara” Thefindings of the study concluded that majority 69% participant’s were compliance to DOTS therapy and 31%were non-compliance to DOTS therapy.