Table 3.
Practices of health care workers when conducting tuberculosis contact tracing
| Nurse | Health Education Assistant | TB focal person and others | Medical officer | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How would you rate TB contact tracing as an important tool to identify new cases? | Very good | 76% | 50% | 40% | 100% | 67% |
| Good | 20% | 50% | 60% | 0% | 33% | |
| Fair | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1% | |
| Poor | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1% | |
| Very poor | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | |
| How often do you conduct TB contact tracing? | Never | 3% | 6% | 80% | 0% | 22% |
| Less than 1/year | 30% | 19% | 20% | 100% | 42% | |
| About 1/month | 37% | 13% | 0% | 0% | 13% | |
| About 1/week | 30% | 38% | 0% | 0% | 17% | |
| More than 1/week | 0% | 25% | 0% | 0% | 6% | |
| Do you think that your health facility is achieving the national TB contact tracing target? | Yes | 13% | 31% | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| No | 54% | 46% | 80% | 100% | 70% | |
| Not sure | 33% | 23% | 20% | 0% | 19% | |
TB: tuberculosis; CT: contact tracing