Table 5.

Distribution of primary health care staff who agree about perceived capacity and motivation to conduct direct observed treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients

Domains of attitude	Total (N = 123)	Type of staff				Working at PHCs which provide DOT for MDR-TB			Received on-the-job training on DOT for MDR-TB procedure			Received training on infection control
		Clinical staffa (N = 95)	TB program staff (N = 10)	Other staffb (N = 18)	p	Yes (N = 39)	No (N = 84)	p	Yes (N = 36)	No (N = 87)	p	Yes (N = 75)	No (N = 48)	p
	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)	n (%)		n (%)	n (%)		n (%)	n (%)		n (%)	n (%)
Perceived capacity
I am confident conducting DOT for MDR-TB patient.	81 (65.9)	62 (65.3)	9 (90.0)	10 (55.6)	0.178	32 (82.1)	49 (58.3)	0.01	31 (86.1)	50 (57.5)	0.002	52 (69.3)	29 (60.4)	0.309
I understand the DOT procedure for MDR-TB patient.	72 (58.6)	58 (61.1)	7 (70.0)	7 (38.9)	0.161	31 (79.5)	41 (48.8)	0.001	32 (88.9)	40 (46.0)	< 0.001	48 (64.0)	24 (50.0)	0.124
Infection control is properly managed in the PHC.	66 (53.7)	47 (49.5)	4 (40.0)	15 (83.3)	0.020	24 (61.5)	42 (50.0)	0.232	20 (55.6)	46 (52.9)	0.786	36 (48.0)	30 (62.5)	0.116
Motivation
If there were a choice, I would prefer not to conduct DOT for MDR-TB patients.	33 (26.8)	28 (29.5)	1 (10.0)	9 (22.2)	0.319	9 (23.1)	24 (28.6)	0.522	6 (16.7)	27 (31.0)	0.158	17 (22.7)	16 (33.3)	0.193
I think I should be involved in TB control by doing DOT for MDR-TB patients.	83 (67.5)	60 (63.2)	10 (100)	13 (72.2)	0.055	28 (71.8)	55 (65.5)	0.486	30 (83.3)	53 (60.9)	0.016	57 (76.0)	26 (54.2)	0.012

^aClinical staff: medical doctor, nurse, and laboratory staff. ^bOther staff: registration staff, health promotion staff, and environmental health staff. Data analysis used the Pearson chi-square test

TB tuberculosis, PHCs primary health care facilities, DOT direct observed treatment, MDR-TB multidrug-resistant tuberculosis