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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
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Illness perception in tuberculosis by implementation of the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire – a TBNET study
SpringerPlus, Volume 3, No. 1, Article 664, Year 2014
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How patients relate to the experience of their illness has a direct impact over their behavior. We aimed to assess illness perception in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) by means of the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (BIPQ) in correlation with patients’ demographic features and clinical TB score. Our observational questionnaire based study included series of consecutive TB patients enrolled in several countries from October 2008 to January 2011 with 167 valid questionnaires analyzed. Each BIPQ item assessed one dimension of illness perceptions like the consequences, timeline, personal control, treatment control, identity, coherence, emotional representation and concern. An open question referred to the main causes of TB in each patient’s opinion. The over-all BIPQ score (36.25 ± 11.054) was in concordance with the clinical TB score (p ≤ 0.001). TB patients believed in the treatment (the highest item-related score for treatment control) but were unsure about the illness identity. Illness understanding and the clinical TB score were negatively correlated (p < 0.01). Only 25% of the participants stated bacteria or TB contact as the first ranked cause of the illness. For routine clinical practice implementation of the BIPQ is convenient for obtaining fast and easy assessment of illness perception with potential utility in intervention design. This time saving effective personalized approach may improve communication with TB patients and contribute to better behavioral strategies in disease control. © 2014, Pesut et al.; licensee Springer.
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Authors & Co-Authors
Pešut, Dragica Petar
Serbia, Belgrade
University of Belgrade
Serbia, Belgrade
Klinicki Centar Srbije
Solovič, Ivan
Unknown Affiliation
Kruczak, Katarzyna
Poland, Krakow
Jagiellonian University Medical College
Duarte, R. A.B.
Portugal, Porto
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto Fmup
Lazic, Zorica
Unknown Affiliation
Statistics
Citations: 12
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1186/2193-1801-3-664
ISSN:
21931801
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Infectious Diseases
Study Design
Randomised Control Trial