Liza M de Groot, Masja Straetemans, Noriah Maraba, Lauren Jennings, Maria Tarcela Gler, Danaida Marcelo, Mirchaye Mekoro, Pieter Steenkamp, Riccardo Gavioli, Anne Spaulding, Edwin Prophete, Margarette Bury, Sayera Banu, Sonia Sultana, Baraka Onjare, Egwuma Efo, Jason Alacapa, Jens Levy, Mona Lisa L Morales, Achilles Katamba, Aleksey Bogdanov, Kateryna Gamazina, Dzhumagulova Kumarkul, Orechova-Li Ekaterina, Adithya Cattamanchi, Amera Khan, Mirjam I Bakker
Worldwide, non-adherence to tuberculosis (TB) treatment is problematic. Digital adherence technologies (DATs) offer a person-centered approach to support and monitor treatment. We explored adherence over time while using DATs. We conducted a meta-analysis on anonymized longitudinal adherence data for drug-susceptible (DS) TB ( n = 4515) and drug-resistant (DR) TB ( n = 473) populations from 11 DAT projects. Using Tobit regression, we assessed adherence for six months of treatment across sex, age, project enrolment phase, DAT-type, health care facility (HCF), and project...
April 22, 2022: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease