Data for "Where are patients missed in the tuberculosis diagnostic cascade? A prospective cohort study in Ghana"

Der, J, Grint, D, Narh, CT, Bonsu, F and Grant, AD. 2019. Data for "Where are patients missed in the tuberculosis diagnostic cascade? A prospective cohort study in Ghana". [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001529.

Der, J, Grint, D, Narh, CT, Bonsu, F and Grant, AD. Data for "Where are patients missed in the tuberculosis diagnostic cascade? A prospective cohort study in Ghana" [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2019. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001529.

Der, J, Grint, D, Narh, CT, Bonsu, F and Grant, AD (2019). Data for "Where are patients missed in the tuberculosis diagnostic cascade? A prospective cohort study in Ghana". [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001529.

Description

Dataset produced as part of a study to identify gaps in the tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic cascade prior to starting treatment conducted in urban and rural health facilities in south-east Ghana among presumptive TB patients routinely identified by a health worker as requiring a sputum TB test. The dataset contains 428 records with 30 variables. Each row refers to a study participant and contains variables of the type of health facility attended, age, educational level, place of residence, socioeconomic status, symptoms of TB (cough, fever, night sweat and weight loss), duration of symptoms, number of symptoms, HIV status, history of diabetes, body mass index, Karnofsky score, ever treated for TB, stigma and distance from residence to health facility. There are also variables on whether a sputum sample was submitted for the test, results received, test results, started TB treatment, duration from test request to sputum submission, reason for not submitting a sputum sample, number of health care providers visited included for each participant.

Methods

Description of data capture

The study was a prospective observational cohort study among adults aged ≥18 years with or without symptoms suggesting TB, self-presenting at the health facility, who were identified routinely by a health worker as needing TB investigation and given a laboratory request to do a sputum test or referred to the municipal hospital. Eligible patients were consecutively invited from four rural health centres and the municipal hospital. Trained research assistants conducted face-to-face interviews with consenting patients using a standardised questionnaire. Data was collected electronically using Open Data Kit (ODK) and uploaded onto a secured server hosted by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Data capture method

Interview: Face-to-face

Data Collection Period

From	To
28 May 2018	8 February 2019

Date (Completed)

10 December 2019

Geographical area covered

North Latitude	East Longitude	South Latitude	West Longitude
11.1116	0.721899	4.8261	-3.18923

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	Der, J, Grint, D, Narh, CT, Bonsu, F and Grant, AD
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Infectious Disease Epidemiology (-2023) Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Dept of Clinical Research
Research Centre	TB Centre
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom