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Abstract

Background: Knowledge on causes & initiation time of #TB treatment of the community is critical and improve or worsen the transmission of the disease and treatment outcomes. Lack of awareness about the disease contribute to how compliance to #chemotherapy and preventive measures of the disease. The objectives of this study were: To assess timeline of initiation of the treatment and current knowledge of patients in Mettu Town. A facility based descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from April 28/2016 -May, 29/2016 and all patients attending Mettu Karl hospital and Mettu health center were included. Data was compiled and analyzed by using Statistical package for Social Sciences software (SPSS) version 20.0. #Statistical significance was defined at a level of 0.05 and data was described with a confidence interval of 95%.

Results: Forty-six (52.87%) of respondents were female and 48.5% of the patients belong to age group of 15-29. Fifty-four (62.07%) of respondents residing in Urban setting and 54.02% were Oromo and 43.68% of respondents can read and write. Thirty-three (37.93%) of respondents recognized the symptoms one month before they presented to health facility for the first time.

Conclusion and Recommendation: Significant numbers of the respondents were not knowledgeable and delayed in the initiation of the #treatment. Appropriate intervention should be taken to reverse this problem.

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Current Knowledge of TB Patients on Initiation of Treatment in Mettu Town by Sileshi Dubale in BJSTR