Abstract
We investigated the awareness and its influencing factors of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis on preferential policies for tuberculosis prevention and treatment in Shandong, China. A total of 858 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis between January 1, 2018 and September 30, 2019 were surveyed with questionnaires. The basic information (age, sex, education level, family financial situation, disease and diagnosis and treatment, etc), policy awareness, and satisfaction survey status, etc of these 858 tuberculosis patients were collected and analyzed with SPSS software (Chicago, IL) The awareness of tuberculosis patients on preferential policies for tuberculosis prevention and treatment was acceptable with awareness rate of 75.17% (645/858), but their satisfaction with the current policies was not ideal. Debt status and total household assets were the influencing factors of awareness (P < .01). Patients with pulmonary tuberculosis expected to get more free items and lower-cost auxiliary drugs. Patients with pulmonary tuberculosis have different levels of awareness on preferential policies for tuberculosis prevention and treatment. Therefore, targeted promotion of preferential policies for tuberculosis prevention and treatment and different management methods for different patients are of great significance to the treatment of tuberculosis epidemics.
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