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Identifying barriers to and facilitators of tuberculosis contact investigation in Kampala, Uganda: a behavioral approach

Overview of attention for article published in Implementation Science, March 2017
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Title
Identifying barriers to and facilitators of tuberculosis contact investigation in Kampala, Uganda: a behavioral approach
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Implementation Science, March 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13012-017-0561-4
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Irene Ayakaka, Sara Ackerman, Joseph M. Ggita, Phoebe Kajubi, David Dowdy, Jessica E. Haberer, Elizabeth Fair, Philip Hopewell, Margaret A. Handley, Adithya Cattamanchi, Achilles Katamba, J. Lucian Davis

Abstract

The World Health Organization recommends routine household tuberculosis contact investigation in high-burden countries but adoption has been limited. We sought to identify barriers to and facilitators of TB contact investigation during its introduction in Kampala, Uganda. We collected cross-sectional qualitative data through focus group discussions and interviews with stakeholders, addressing three core activities of contact investigation: arranging household screening visits through index TB patients, visiting households to screen contacts and refer them to clinics, and evaluating at-risk contacts coming to clinics. We analyzed the data using a validated theory of behavior change, the Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation determine Behavior (COM-B) model, and sought to identify targeted interventions using the related Behavior Change Wheel implementation framework. We led seven focus-group discussions with 61 health-care workers, two with 21 lay health workers (LHWs), and one with four household contacts of newly diagnosed TB patients. We, in addition, performed 32 interviews with household contacts from 14 households of newly diagnosed TB patients. Commonly noted barriers included stigma, limited knowledge about TB among contacts, insufficient time and space in clinics for counselling, mistrust of health-center staff among index patients and contacts, and high travel costs for LHWs and contacts. The most important facilitators identified were the personalized and enabling services provided by LHWs. We identified education, persuasion, enablement, modeling of health-positive behaviors, incentivization, and restructuring of the service environment as relevant intervention functions with potential to alleviate barriers to and enhance facilitators of TB contact investigation. The use of a behavioral theory and a validated implementation framework provided a comprehensive approach for systematically identifying barriers to and facilitators of TB contact investigation. The behavioral determinants identified here may be useful in tailoring interventions to improve implementation of contact investigation in Kampala and other similar urban settings.

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Unknown 303 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 61 20%
Researcher 34 11%
Student > Bachelor 31 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 9%
Student > Postgraduate 20 7%
Other 51 17%
Unknown 79 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 88 29%
Nursing and Health Professions 57 19%
Social Sciences 16 5%
Unspecified 7 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 2%
Other 41 14%
Unknown 88 29%
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