دراسة معدل انتشار التدرن الكامن في سجن اصلاح الكبار في محافظة بابل == Prevalence of Latent Tuberculosis in Hilla Male Prison
Author name:
مرتضى نجاح جواد
Supervisor name:
قاسم محمد سلطان
General topic:
Medicine
Specific topic:
Diseases - Thoracic
Degree:
Higher Diploma
University:
University of Baghdad - Faculty Of Medicine
Language:
English
University location:
Baghdad
First pages:
19T1346 - p.pdf
Abstract:
Background : Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest diseases known toaffect humans, it caused by infection with Mycobacterium Tuberculosis(M.TB). M.TB is most commonly transmitted from a patient withinfectious pulmonary TB to other person by droplet nuclei .prisoners areexposed to a variety of infections, including TB. the standard test fordetecting Latent TB infection (LTBI) is tuberculin skin test (TST).Objectives : determination the prevalence of latent tuberculosis amongAL - Hilla male prisoners .and Assessing its correlations with various riskfactors.Methods : A stratified random sampling technique was used to select asample of 120 male prisoners aged >20years old from the AL - Hillaprison. The selected inmates were interviewed using a structured pretestedquestionnaire,5 units of PPD(0.1mL) had been injectedintradermally to the volar surface of forearm to be seen within 48 - 72hours. The test was considered positive if ( >=10mm induration)developed.Results : The study shows the rate of tuberculin reactivity amongprisoners is 23.3% (28/120). A significant relationship between age ofprisoner, mean area of accommodation per prisoner in the prison and TSTpositivity. The overall mean age of prisoners was (34.43± 12.70) yearsold and (47.5%) of the prisoners was aged between 20 - 30 years. Majority(77.5%) of the prisoners were living in urban area. (57.5%) of theprisoners were married. The alliterated prisoners were(53.3%). selfemployedprisoners were(61.7%). (53.3%) of prisoners had monthlyincome between 500 000 - 1 Million IQD. (39.2%) of prisoners spent oneyear of their prison period .The prevalence of smokers were(76.7%) andVIIonly (14.2%) of prisoners had contact with TB patients, meanwhile,(6.7%) of prisoners had contact with TB patients in prisons. Theprisoners had BCG vaccine signs were (74.2%).the prisoners who did notshare their house holding were (57.5%). The overall mean prisoners BMIwas (22.21± 3.19) kg/m2. The mean space of each cell in prison was(120.67± 85.38) m2, meanwhile the mean prisoners per each cell was(43.07± 17.72).So space of each prisoner approximately is : 2.8 m2 .Conclusion : significant relationship between age, area of accommodationfor each prisoner inside cell and positivity of TST.
