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Revista Salud Uninorte

Print version ISSN 0120-5552On-line version ISSN 2011-7531

Abstract

DUENES GOMEZ, MAGALLY; VELASQUEZ QUINTERO, MARIANA  and  MONTOYA NARANJO, JUAN ANDRÉS. Knowledge, beliefs, practices and socioeconomic conditions in patients with TB in the municipality of Pereira (Colombia), 2021. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2023, vol.39, n.3, pp.931-947.  Epub Apr 20, 2024. ISSN 0120-5552.  https://doi.org/10.14482/sun.39.03.103.749.

Introduction:

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease, which in order to understand it from a social context, it is necessary to recognize the realities built by the community in front of it, integrating its knowledge, beliefs and practices with the sociodemographic and economic conditions to understand its appearance and development.

Objective:

Understand the knowledge, beliefs, practices, socioeconomic conditions and educational aspects of TB patients in the municipality of Pereira (Colombia), 2021, in order to re-educate them about their care.

Methodology:

Qualitative, descriptive study in users who attend the Tuberculosis Control Program; of which 14 patients who meet the inclusion criteria are selected. A semi-structured interview is carried out with all the participants until information saturation is obtained, through five categories: knowledge, beliefs, practices, socioeconomic conditions and educational aspects related to Tuberculosis, to understand it from the social construction expressed by patients and generate a holistic approach that allows them to re-educate them in their care.

Results:

57.1 % are female, average age: 38 years, of mixed ethnicity; 50 % live in free union; 71.4 % live with the family; 28.6 % have primary and secondary education; 71.4 % work; 100 % live in an urban area. The qualitative results yield five categories: knowledge, beliefs, practices, socioeconomic conditions, and educational aspects of TB.

Conclusion:

There is limiting knowledge regarding the origin and transmission of the disease with beliefs associated with poverty and stigmatization that negatively affects the economic and emotional condition of patients and their support network in the care of the disease.

Keywords : Tuberculosis; socioeconomic factors; knowledge; beliefs; practices; health education.

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