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Social trust and health seeking behaviours: A longitudinal study of a community-based active tuberculosis case finding program in the Philippines.
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- Integrated health checks as a person-centred approach to systematic screening of household tuberculosis contacts: A realist-informed mixed-methods study.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- A Review of Workplace Tuberculosis Policies in Selected Low- and Middle-Income Countries in Asia-Pacific.Acta medica Philippina · 2025Article
- Socio-Economic Factors Affecting Member's Satisfaction towards National Health Insurance: An Evidence from the Philippines.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Navigating fear and care: The lived experiences of community-based health actors in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Article
- Dramatic increases in knowledge, attitudes and practices of COVID-19 observed among low-income households in the Philippines: A repeated cross-sectional study in 2020.Journal of global health · 2022Article
- Exploring the Role of Social Networks in Facilitating Health Service Access Among Low-Income Women in the Philippines: A Qualitative Study.Health services insights · 2022Article
- Implementing a mHealth-Based Patient and Nurse Educational Program to Reduce Wound Infection in Rural Philippines.Annals of global health · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionSocial trust is an important driver of health seeking behaviours and plays a particularly important role for diseases that have a high degree of stigma associated with them, such as tuberculosis (TB). Individuals experiencing poverty also face additional social and financial barriers in accessing care for TB. We examined an active case finding (ACF) initiative embedded in a program targeting those living in poverty (
methodsProgram monitoring data and a cross-sectional survey conducted at the beginning of
resultsAmong the subset of 3350 individuals who received TB screening in 51 communities, 889 (26.5%) were symptom positive and required referral to the RHU, but only 24.1% of those who received referrals successfully attended the RHU. Multilevel regression analysis showed that for each unit increase on the Likert scale in baseline level of family satisfaction and level of trust in relatives, the odds of attending an RHU was 1.03 times (95% CI: 0.99, 1.07) and 1.06 times greater (95% CI: 1.00, 1.11), respectively, independent of other factors.
conclusionThese results suggest that social trust in family members could play a valuable role in addressing stigma and rejection, both cited as barriers to higher screening rates. It is recommended that ACF programs that target TB, or other diseases that are stigmatized, prioritize trust-building as an important component of their intervention.
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