ICPS
2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019
Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders Among MDR-TB Patients: A Retrospective Study of 495 Patients
- Manoj Pawar
MVP's Dr.VPMCHRC - Mehak Singh
private practice
Abstract
India has the highest tuberculosis and the second highest multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases. Second line treatments of MDR-TB are commonly associated with psychiatric disorders and disease related psycho-social factors add to it.
In this retrospective study, we studied psychiatric disorders among MDR-TB patients from January 2017 to August 2018.
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