TY - GEN ID - cogprints7115 UR - http://cogprints.org/7115/ A1 - Sinha, Teeku A1 - Tiwari, S Y1 - 2010/10/15/ N2 - Background: 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, requiring more prolonged and expensive therapy. Objective: 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: Cross sectional observational community based study. Study Setting: Microscopic Centers in District Raipur. Participants: 695 patients of Tuberculosis. Result: Study revealed that 65.93% patients had complied with the DOTS therapy and 33.38% were non compliant. Conclusion: Most of the reasons of non-Compliance can be averted by proper counseling of target group. Hence to achieve the goal of RNTCP, proper counseling of target group must be given top priority. PB - Dr. B.S. Kakkilaya KW - Counseling; DOTS; Non compliance TI - DOTS Compliance by Tuberculosis Patients in District Raipur (Chhattisgarh) AV - public ER -