BACKGROUND Tobacco cessation medication adherence is one of the few factors shown to improve smoking cessation rates among methadone-maintained smokers, but interventions to improve adherence to smoking cessation medications have not yet been tested among methadone treatment patients. Methadone clinic-based, directly observed therapy (DOT) programs for HIV and tuberculosis improve adherence and...

Anemia is one of the reproductive health problems in adolescents. The incidence anemia still high Indonesia. Supplementation Iron tablets per week policies to decrease incident. This study aims determine effectiveness implementation Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) for Tablet Supplements. Consumption was observed school students 12 weeks. a quantitative with quasi-experimental design, experime...

BACKGROUND This quasi-experimental cohort study aimed to evaluate World Health Organization (WHO) defined tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes for patients under directly observed treatment at a health facility (clinic DOT) or at home (family DOT) in urban Pakistan. METHODS We enrolled 582 sputum smear-positive TB patients being treated by either clinic DOT (n = 295) or family DOT (n = 287) i...

Background: The effectiveness of directly observed therapy (DOT) on TB treatment outcome has been debated and different findings regarding different DOT practices and settings were demonstrated. Methodology: The observational study was conducted in new sputum smear and culture positive pulmonary TB patients at Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital and Chonburi Hospital, Chonburi province, Thai...

BACKGROUND Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) represents a major obstacle towards successful TB control. Directly observed therapy (DOT) was recommended by WHO to improve adherence and treatment outcomes of MDR-TB patients, however, the effectiveness of DOT on treatment outcomes of MDR-TB patients was mixed in previous studies. We conducted this systematic review and meta-analysis to ass...