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Table 2 Patient’s willingness to receive tuberculosis treatment management (%)

From: Is tuberculosis patients management improved in the integrated TB control model in West China? A survey in Guizhou Province, China

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Willing

Perfect means of management

Unwilling

Reasons for unwilling

Telephone

Message

Home visit

Other means

Social stigma

Unnecessary

Inconvenient

Other reasons

Management in intensive phase (n = 637)

387 (60.80)

347 (89.7)

9 (2.3)

105 (27.1)

1 (0.3)

250 (39.2)

115 (46.0)

116 (46.4)

23 (9.2)

1 (0.4)

Management in continuation phase (n = 636)

387 (60.8)

349 (90.2)

8 (2.1)

93 (24.0)

1 (0.3)

249 (39.2)

113 (45.4)

118 (47.4)

21 (8.4)

1 (0.4)

Remind of follow-up (n = 620)

562 (90.6)

535 (95.2)

6 (1.1)

84 (14.9)

1 (0.2)

58 (9.4)

15 (25.9)

25 (43.1)

4 (6.9)

10 (17.2)

Management on missed dose (n = 612)

547 (89.4)

501 (91.6)

16 (2.9)

104 (19.0)

10 (1.8)

65 (10.6)

15 (23.1)

38 (58.5)

5 (7.7)

6 (9.2)

Management on interrupted treatment (n = 617)

554 (89.8)

501 (90.4)

15 (2.7)

111 (20.0)

10 (1.8)

63 (10.2)

14 (22.2)

41 (65.1)

5 (7.9)

2 (3.2)