Table 3.
Attitude questions on drug-resistant tuberculosis infection control and the responses from the study participants.
| Attitude questions | Agree | Disagree | No comments | Total responses | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| I am worried that I may contract drug-resistant tuberculosis. | 18 | 19% | 28 | 29% | 49 | 52% | 95 |
| Drug-resistant tuberculosis cannot be cured. | 32 | 34% | 60 | 63% | 3 | 3% | 95 |
| My workplace is concerned about the risk of drug-resistant tuberculosis transmission to its staff. | 45 | 47% | 40 | 42% | 10 | 11% | 95 |
| My workplace has provisioned adequate resources to minimize the risk of drug-resistant tuberculosis transmission to its staff. | 32 | 34% | 59 | 62% | 4 | 4% | 95 |
| I have been well trained in tuberculosis infection control. | 50 | 53% | 36 | 38% | 9 | 9% | 95 |
| Healthcare workers have already been infected with tuberculosis, so taking infection control measures will not help. | 37 | 39% | 57 | 60% | 1 | 1% | 95 |
| The administrative measures of tuberculosis infection control minimize the exposure to tubercular bacilli. | 46 | 48% | 45 | 47% | 4 | 4% | 95 |
| The environmental measures of tuberculosis infection control minimize the number of tubercular bacilli in the environment. | 42 | 45% | 44 | 47% | 8 | 9% | 94 |
| The healthcare workers taking care of the patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis must wear N95 masks. | 39 | 41% | 56 | 59% | — | — | 95 |
| I would like to be tested for tuberculosis periodically. | 56 | 59% | 39 | 41% | — | — | 95 |