Table 1 Treatment seeking behaviour before diagnosis with TB
From: Public and/or private health care: Tuberculosis patients' perspectives in Myanmar
Order | Domain and strategy | Purpose and action |
|---|---|---|
1 | Home treatment | Trial with home remedies and herbs |
2 | Self-medication | Use of western and traditional medicines from over-the-counter stores |
3 | Sought advice from friends and relatives | Advice from friends and relatives influenced treatment seeking patterns and choice of treatment centre. Old TB cases provide advice informally to new TB cases |
4 | Seeking treatment from GPs as first formal source | All patients first sought care at GP clinics |
5 | Shopping around treatment centres | Some patients opted to see different GPs and specialist clinics when symptoms did not subside. Some patients sought care at more than one treatment centre. |
6 | Seeking care from public health service | Patients went to public health service when their symptoms did not improved after seeing many GPs or when they suspected themselves of contracting TB |