Use of tele-education for strengthening community participation in tuberculosis control

Tuberculosis has been one of the biggest issues of public health in India with constant diagnostic delays, stigma, and poor treatment-seeking behaviour serve as barriers to Disease elimination process. Although the diagnostic and surveillance technologies have been improved at a rapid pace. The society is still Stemming from lagging in community engagement and thus the awareness cannot be converted to action. This research explores the opportunities of tele-education as a scaled process to enhance the community involvement in the issue of the control of tuberculosis in opposite high-case environments in an urban slum cluster and a tribal village network. An intervention based on the use of four videos, audio modules, quizzes, and ASHA-promoted reinforcement was implemented on 112 households over a period of four weeks via tele-education. The results showed that both sites had great improvements in TB literacy in addition to behaviour change that was observed through the self-initiated referrals, increased uptake of screening, and the facilitation of information with peers. Despite the fact that the urban slum had a higher level of digital participation, the tribal community acquired knowledge the same way by a hybrid offline-based model. The findings highlight the relevance of contextual differentiation, trusted intermediaries and blended learning methods in realizing the maximum impact of tele-education. Tele-education as a potential solution to speed up eliminating TB nationally can be viewed offenders by considering communities as active participants not as passive recipients, through a reformulation of communities as active partners, which facilitates population health initiatives beyond biomedical innovation.