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为结核病诊断提供以人为中心的目标产品资料:多国定性研究
Maria Del Mar Castro1,2, Hien Le3, Kingsley Manoj Kumar4
1Division of Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
|August 12, 2025
概括
患者优先考虑精确的结核病 (TB) 诊断测试,而不是方便,即使这意味着样本采集不那么舒适. 这些发现可以指导开发更多以人为中心的结核病诊断策略.
科学领域:
- 全球健康 全球健康
- 诊断发展 诊断发展
- 定性研究是指质量研究.
背景情况:
- 在高负担地区,准确的结核病 (TB) 诊断至关重要.
- 目前的结核病诊断发展,以世卫组织的目标产品概况 (TPPs) 为指导,缺乏结核病患者的投入.
- 这项研究解决了以人为中心的结核病诊断策略的需要.
研究的目的:
- 探索接受结核病评估的个体的偏好和经验.
- 为开发以人为中心的结核病诊断策略提供信息.
- 为更新世卫组织结核病诊断政策提供见解.
主要方法:
- 在五个国家 (印度,菲律宾,南非,乌干达,越南) 进行了75次半结构面试,对成年人进行结核病评估.
- 雇员有目的的抽样,以确保参与者的多样性 (性别,结核病状况,年龄,治疗).
- 利用专题分析来解释采访数据.
主要成果:
- 确定了关键偏好领域:感知精度,样本采集,周转时间,成本和位置.
- 诊断的准确性和可靠性是最重要的,参与者愿意牺牲舒适度以获得可靠的结果.
- 唾液和血液测试比舌头拭子或尿液更值得信赖,尽管收集困难. 评价的是快速的结果和负担得起的间接成本.
- 基于医院的测试被认为是可靠性的首选,尽管如果保证隐私和准确性,基于社区的选择是有吸引力的.
结论:
- 结核病患者优先考虑测试准确性和可靠性,而不是舒适性和便利性.
- 这些以患者为中心的偏好应该为世卫组织的政策提供信息,特别是关于新型样本类型和测试策略.
- 纳入患者偏好可以提高吸收和公平获得新的结核病诊断.
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