Orientation of tuberculosis patients to recovery using educational programme of «Phtysa-school»

Abstract

A conception of tuberculosis control at the end of XXth century and at the beginning of the XXIth one requires the treatment to be re-organized in order to increase its efficacy. Meanwhile protective psychological reactions are being developed in lung tuberculosis patients which de-adapt the personalities and not incline them to a long-term treatment. So, it is necessary to inform the patients about their disease in order to overcome this negative attitude to the treatment. The article sums up the psychological and social trial results and generalizes the experience of the «Phtysa-school» work. The basic aim of the «Phtysa-school» is to incline the patients to a long-term treatment and to reinforce their certainty of favorable outcome of the disease.