?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=DOTS+Compliance+by+Tuberculosis+Patients+in+District+Raipur+(Chhattisgarh)&rft.creator=Sinha%2C+Teeku&rft.creator=Tiwari%2C+S&rft.subject=Online+Journal+of+Health+and+Allied+Sciences&rft.description=Background%3A+Compliance+to+therapy+is+one+of+the+important+factors+that+affect+the+outcome.+Non-compliance+to+self+administered+multi+drug+tuberculosis+treatment+regimens+is+an+important+cause+of+failure+of+initial+therapy+and+relapse+as+well+as+acquired+drug+resistance%2C+requiring+more+prolonged+and+expensive+therapy.+Objective%3A+To+know+the+compliance+of+DOTS+therapy+in+TB+patients+in+District+Raipur+and+to+find+out+the+reasons+of+non-compliance+of+DOTS+therapy+among+the+patients.+Study+Design%3A+Cross+sectional+observational++community+based+study.+Study+Setting%3A+Microscopic+Centers+in+District+Raipur.+Participants%3A+695+patients+of+Tuberculosis.+Result%3A+Study+revealed+that+65.93%25+patients+had+complied+with+the+DOTS+therapy+and+33.38%25+were+non+compliant.+Conclusion%3A+Most+of+the+reasons+of+non-Compliance+can+be+averted+by+proper+counseling+of+target+group.+Hence+to+achieve+the+goal+of+RNTCP%2C+proper+counseling+of+target+group+must+be+given+top+priority.&rft.publisher=Dr.+B.S.+Kakkilaya&rft.contributor=Kakkilaya%2C+Dr.+Srinivas&rft.date=2010-10-15&rft.type=Journal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7115%2F4%2F2010-3-12.pdf&rft.identifier=++Sinha%2C+Teeku+and+Tiwari%2C+S++(2010)+DOTS+Compliance+by+Tuberculosis+Patients+in+District+Raipur+(Chhattisgarh).++%5BJournal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7115%2F