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Tuberculosis treatment outcomes among pulmonary TB patients attending public hospitals in Kebbi State, Northern Nigeria: a four-year retrospective study
Bulletin of the National Research Centre volume 46, Article number: 281 (2022)
Abstract
Background
In Nigeria, effective case management and evaluation of pulmonary tuberculosis treatment outcomes are an integral part of controlling the spread of infectious diseases. The study reviewed the treatment outcomes of pulmonary tuberculosis and the factors associated with rates of successful and unsuccessful treatment outcomes in the 21 referral hospitals in Kebbi State, Nigeria.
Methods
Documented records of pulmonary tuberculosis patients from January 2018 to December 2021 in 21 Local Area Councils in Kebbi State, Northern Nigeria were reviewed. A structured questionnaire collated the socio-demographic and clinical data from the documented records. Descriptive statistics were used to compute and analyse the outcomes of successful and unsuccessful treatment. Logistic regression models were used to determine the association of socio-demographic and clinical data with the unsuccessful treatment outcomes.
Results
The study reviewed data from 6114 records of TB patients. 1161 (18.9%) started treatment, 963 (82.9%) were males and 198 (17.1%) were females. Of the 1161 patients, 985 (18.2%) had documented treatment outcomes. 932 of 985 (95.1%) had a pulmonary infection. 64 (5.8%) patients with documented treatment outcomes were HIV seropositive. 903 (91.7%) were successfully treated, and 82 (8.3%) failed. Of the patients with failed treatment outcomes, 15 (1.5%) were lost to follow-up, 43 (4.4%) defaulted and 24 (2.4%) died. In the logistic analysis, the odds of unsuccessful treatment outcomes were higher among elderly patients (AOR = 2.00, 95% CI 1.37–2.92), patients with extrapulmonary infections (AOR = 2.40, 95% CI 1.12–5.39), and with old cases of pulmonary TB (AOR = 3.03, 95% CI 1.47–7.19) when compared to their groups.
Conclusions
The study reported a treatment success rate of 91.7% among TB patients attending public hospitals in Kebbi State. The outcome was higher than the projected success rate of 85% set by the WHO. However, one-fourth of the total patients reviewed were not documented for treatment. Therefore, the need to design an appropriate recruitment strategy to identify and enrol those patients for an effective and successful TB control program in Nigeria.
Background
In 2020, despite the accessibility of highly effective treatment, there were an estimated 10 million new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis worldwide. 5.6 million men, 3.3 million women, 1.1 million children and 1.5–2.0 million deaths worldwide (Chakaya et al. 2021; Harding 2020). The counties with the highest burden of TB cases were in the South-East Asian Region (43%), African countries account for 25% and then the Western Pacific with 18%. Eight out of the 30 endemic countries accounted for two-thirds of the total new cases of TB (Chakaya et al. 2021; Harding 2020). Incidentally, Nigeria falls under this category representing a high burden of new TB cases: a leading cause of mortality rate in the country (Harding 2020; Oladimeji et al. 2021).
To prevent and control the high burden of new TB cases and reduce the mortality rate due to tuberculosis, the WHO recommends a Directly Observed Therapy (DOTS) approach for the case management of persons with active TB disease. The DOTS approach is a standardized short-course chemotherapy strategy effective in the diagnosis, treatment, and control of pulmonary tuberculosis (Harding 2020; Chakaya et al. 2022).
In Nigeria, despite the introduction of DOTS decades ago, the average rate of successful treatment is 75.3% (Kwaghe et al. 2020). Previous studies reported varied TB treatment success rates of 83.7%, 86%, 85.7%, and 67.4%, in Kaduna, Anambra, Lagos Plateau, and Ebonyi (Adejumo et al. 2016; Akanbi et al. 2019; Alobu et al. 2014; Babatunde et al. 2016; Daniel and Alausa 2006). Similar studies documented treatment success rates of 56.5%, 81.9%, 80%, 76.6% and 83.5% in Sokoto, Bauchi, Oyo, and Ogun states, respectively (Gidado and Ejembi 2009; Kwaghe et al. 2020; Oladimeji et al. 2021; Oshi et al. 2020; Sariem et al. 2020; Umeokonkwo et al. 2020). Some of these results are below the WHO-recommended threshold of 85–90% success rates (Chakaya et al. 2021; Kwaghe et al. 2020). Because a substantial number of pulmonary TB cases were not registered and enroled into the DOTS by the Nigerian National TB control program for treatment. This creates a treatment gap at the referral centres, which sequentially affects the control and prevention of TB, the treatment outcome and its determinants (Kwaghe et al. 2020).
A higher rate of successful treatment outcomes has reduced the TB burden and mortality rate in the population. An unsuccessful treatment outcome result has an immediate effect on the socioeconomic well-being of the population. Clinically, it will fast-track the spread of multi-drug resistance pulmonary tuberculosis in the community (Danlami et al. 2021; Oladimeji et al. 2021). Therefore, monitoring and evaluating the successful and unsuccessful treatment outcomes of pulmonary tuberculosis in the government’s referral centres are integral parts of an effective TB control program in Nigeria. This study investigated tuberculosis treatment outcomes and the factors associated with unsuccessful outcomes never assessed in the 21 referral hospitals in Kebbi State, Nigeria.
Methods
Kebbi with a population of approximately 4.4 million is the tenth largest and the 22nd most populous state in Nigeria. The state has 21 Local Government Area Councils (LGA). The prospective pulmonary TB data from DOTS facilities in the LGAs are collected by the LGA TB focal persons and submitted to the State TB and Leprosy Control Managers, who report to the National TB and Leprosy Control Program (NTBLCP) (Oladimeji et al. 2021).
Study design
The study reviewed treatment outcomes of pulmonary TB patients managed in the DOTS facilities of the 21 general hospitals of Kebbi State between January 2018 and December 2021. The socio-demographic data retrieved from the patient records were the year of infection, age and sex. The clinical data retrieved from the patient data were the disease classification, DOTS facility, HIV status, diagnosis, and case management type.
Inclusion criteria
The criteria adopted in the study included pulmonary TB patients between 5–70 years of age who started TB treatment in any of the 21 general hospitals with DOTS facilities between January 2018 and December 2021. All combined and confirmed pulmonary TB and extrapulmonary TB infections were included in the study. Pulmonary TB patients with confirmed multi-drug resistance tuberculosis with no definitive treatment strategy were excluded from the study.
Key terms/definition
Cured: A cured patient is a confirmed smear-positive patient at the start of treatment who was smear negative six months after the treatment commences or at the end of treatment.
Treatment completed This is a pulmonary TB patient who begins treatment but without a documented record of smear or culture-negative results of treatment.
Treatment failure A pulmonary TB treatment failure is a patient who commenced treatment but with a smear or culture-positive result during or five months after the commencement of the treatment.
Died A pulmonary TB patient who commenced treatment and dies before completing the treatment.
Defaulted A pulmonary TB patient has defaulted if he did not commence treatment and or commenced the treatment but interrupted for two successive months or more.
Loss to follow-up A pulmonary TB patient with unknown records of treatment outcomes due to transfer to other DOTS facilities.
Treatment success A pulmonary TB patient with successful treatment is a patient with a smear-positive result at the beginning of treatment but cured and completes the treatment with a confirmed smear-negative result.
Data collection and analysis
The research assistant collated the data between January 2018 and December 2021. Each patient's data were entered and coded into Microsoft Excel 1 version 2013. The coded data were analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS®, version 21; SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Descriptive analysis was adopted to identify associations among variables. Logistic regression was used to analyze the relationship between the dependent and independent variables. The association between variables was presented as the odds ratio and adjusted odd ratio with nominal 95% confidence intervals (CI) at a p-value of 0.05.
Results
The study reviewed 6114 documented records of PTB patients. 1161 (18.9%) commenced treatment. 963 (82.9%) were males and 198 (17.1%) were females. 985 (18.2%) of TB patients reviewed had documented treatment outcomes. 64 (5.8%) of the patient with documented treatment outcomes were HIV seropositive and 932 (95.1%) had a pulmonary infection (Table 1). Of the TB patients reviewed, 903 (91.7%) treatments were successful, and 82 (8.3%) failed. Among the successful treatment outcome, 411 (41.7%) were cured, and 492 (49.9%) completed the treatment. Of the patients with unsuccessful treatment outcomes, 15 (1.5%) lost-to-follow-up, 43 (4.4%) defaulted and 24 (2.4%) died. The highest rate of successful treatment was recorded in females (97.6%), patients with new cases (92.3%) and with pulmonary infections (91.2%) (Table 2).
The risk of treatment failure among the elderly was 0.90 (95% CI 0.48–1.68) higher compared to those aged 15–40 years. Positive HIV status had a 1.91, 95% CI (0.59–6.23) times greater risk of unsuccessful treatment outcome compared to those with negative HIV status. Patients with old TB cases had a 2.43, 95% CI (1.28–4.63) times greater than new cases (Table 3). In multivariate logistic analysis, the odds of treatment failure were two-fold higher among patients with extrapulmonary infections (AOR = 2.40, 95% CI 1.12–5.39), PTB elderly patients above 40 years of age (AOR = 2.00, 95% CI 1.37–2.92), and three-fold higher with old or other cases (AOR = 3.03, 95% CI 1.47–7.19) as compared to their groups. Overall, the likelihood of patients having successful treatment outcomes in a DOTS facility is (AOR = 0.52, 95% CI 0.42–0.77) (Table 3).
Discussion
Herein a retrospective study, the overall rate of successful treatment among TB patients attending public hospitals in Kebbi State is 91.7%. This rate is slightly higher than the success rate of 85% recommended by the world health organization (Harding 2020). This result is similarly higher than the targeted treatment success rate of 86% among all new TB cases reported around the world and in the Anambra and Lagos states in Nigeria (Kwaghe et al. 2020; Oladimeji et al. 2021; Umeokonkwo et al. 2020). The success rate reported in this retrospective study, however, is in contrast to the mean annual successful treatment rate of 75.3% reported in Nigeria and several states in the country (Kwaghe et al. 2020). The variation in the successful treatment rate could be attributed to factors associated with the research design and the number of respondents in the study population, the quality of the DOTS strategy and facilities (Jacobson et al. 2015), and the patient TB-HIV co-infected status (Gebrezgabiher et al. 2016). The study follows up on patients who contracted the disease pre-COVID-19 (2018–2019) and post-COVID-19 (2020–2021). Despite this, the anticipated effects of COVID-19-related disruptions in access to TB care were not considered, because the most significant impact of the pandemic on access to DOT facilities, was lockdown. The current study area is among the few in the country with few cases of COVID-19 (480 cases, 16 deaths) (NCDC 2022), partial lockdown and unrestricted movement of people including TB patients who need access to diagnostic facilities and treatment centres.
This study revealed that the majority of the pulmonary TB cases reviewed were males because a high percentage of males were predisposed to pulmonary tuberculosis due to their social habits, practices, and occupations (Danlami et al. 2021). The women are prone to pulmonary tuberculosis due to their caregiver roles and social status, thus a reduced frequency of women than men. In addition, women are more likely to seek medical care early from certified healthcare facilities. Therefore, their role in the community involves protecting their children and families from infection (Danlami et al. 2021). Seeking medical care early helps prevent diseases and improve quality of life. Correspondingly, one-fourth (80.1%) of the total patients reviewed were not documented for treatment. This might be connected with stigmatization towards TB patients and its gender specific. Male TB patients had a penchant for keeping information or providing wrong information about their TB status to avoid visits or follow-up calls from healthcare providers. They constituted the majority of cases for whom the treatment outcome is unknown to the reporting unit. Whereas in female patients, despite stigmatization in the form of abandonment and emotional abuse, information about their TB status is open to families and friends. They welcome, visit and embrace health caregivers and the evidence is clear from the success recorded in the treatment outcome in this study. The reduced number of TB patients not utilizing the DOTS service contributed to highly successful treatment outcomes and low treatment failure in the study. The failure of the patient to present themselves for treatment might be associated with the proximity of referral hospitals for the patients (Babatunde et al. 2016; Jacobson et al. 2015), lack of awareness, and poor financial status (Chakaya et al. 2022; Kwaghe et al. 2020; Umeokonkwo et al. 2020). The study also observed a lower rate of unsuccessful treatment outcomes 8.3% in the study area, which might be a result of cooperation between the DOTS supervisors and the documented TB patients in good adherence to TB treatment (Alobu et al. 2014; Babatunde et al. 2016). The high percentage of treatment failure reported due to loss of follow-up and death is 4.4% and 2.4%, respectively. In previous studies, the rate of unsuccessful treatment outcomes due to loss of follow-up increases the risk of death due to the incapacitation of TB patients occasioned by the multi-drug resistant strains of M. tuberculosis (Chakaya et al. 2021; Gidado and Ejembi 2009; Oshi et al. 2020).
In the logistic regression analysis, older age, HIV status, patients with old cases and extrapulmonary infections were the predisposing factors to unsuccessful treatment outcomes among TB patients. Consistent with previous findings, the risk of having unsuccessful treatment outcome were more pronounced in elderly patients due to changes in body composition in old age, unable to adhere to treatment due to complex regimens and multiple prescribing, and low immunity due to ongoing treatment (Adejumo et al. 2016; Chakaya et al. 2021; Hall et al. 2017). Similarly, patients with immune suppression due to HIV seropositive have reported poor treatment outcomes due to the depletion and dysfunction of CD4 cells by HIV that weakens the body system from fighting infection (Akanbi et al. 2019; Babatunde et al. 2016; Daniel and Alausa 2006; Eshetie et al. 2018). The old TB cases in this study are patients who have had TB treatment and whose treatment failed at the end of their most recent course of treatment. The unsuccessful treatment outcomes observed among old TB cases might be either to the emergence of drug resistance during the treatment course or underlying disease conditions (Danlami et al. 2021; Loveday et al. 2012; Sariem et al. 2020). Additionally, the present study showed that patients with combined pulmonary TB and extrapulmonary infections had lower treatment success rates compared to pulmonary TB patients (Atif et al. 2018; Eshetie et al. 2018; Hall et al. 2017). This might be connected with the effects of combined pulmonary TB and extrapulmonary infections as well as the HIV status of the patient in this group, as a significant number of the TB patients with extrapulmonary infections had TB-HIV co-infection. Patients in this group are more likely to have lower treatment success rates or fail treatment than patients with negative HIV status (Loveday et al. 2012; Oladimeji et al. 2021).
Conclusions
The study reported a treatment success rate of 91.7% among TB patients attending public hospitals in Kebbi State. The outcome was higher than the projected success rate of 85% set by the WHO. The result from this study is attributed to good adherence to TB treatment, which highlighted the performance of institutional DOTS in the study area. Nonetheless, one-fourth of the total patients reviewed were not documented for treatment, this contributed to a lower number of patients with unsuccessful treatment outcomes. The high percentage of TB patients not enroled on DOTS facilities could be a reservoir of the high TB burden in the area. Therefore, the study recommends the need for designing effective tracing methods to identify and enrol patients for effective and successful TB treatment outcomes in the study area and the country.
Availability of data and materials
The datasets are available from the corresponding author upon request.
Abbreviations
- AOR:
-
Adjusted Odd Ration
- COR:
-
Corrected Odd Ratio
- CD4:
-
Cluster of Differentiation 4
- CI:
-
Confidence Intervals
- DOTS:
-
Directly Observed Therapy
- DOTS:
-
Directly Observed Therapy Short-course
- HIV:
-
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
- LGA:
-
Local Government Authority
- NTBLCP:
-
National TB and Leprosy Control Program
- PTB:
-
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
- P.M.B.:
-
Private Mail Box
- TB:
-
Tuberculosis
- TB-HIV:
-
Tuberculosis- Human Immunodeficiency Virus
- WHO:
-
World Health Organization
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We acknowledged the staff of the 21 referral hospitals in Kebbi state and from the State Ministry of Health for the support given towards the successful completion of this research.
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Conceived and designed the experiments: MBD, BA, MMB, BHG. Analysed the data: MBD, BA, AYB, TY. Contributed materials and analysis tools: MBD, BA, AYB, TY. Wrote the paper: MBD, BA, TY, AYG. All authors have read and approved the manuscript.
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Danlami, M.B., Basiru, A., Tajjudeen, Y. et al. Tuberculosis treatment outcomes among pulmonary TB patients attending public hospitals in Kebbi State, Northern Nigeria: a four-year retrospective study. Bull Natl Res Cent 46, 281 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42269-022-00969-9
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Keywords
- Successful outcome
- Treatment outcome
- Pulmonary tuberculosis
- Kebbi
- Nigeria