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and Social Science Research Forum Proceedings
BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES IN TUBERCULOSIS ELIMINATION
Wanda Walton, Ph.D.
Chief, Communications, Education, and Behavioral Studies Branch
Division of Tuberculosis Elimination,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Slide #1: Behavioral and Social Science
in Tuberculosis Elimination
Wanda Walton, PhD
Communications, Education, and Behavioral Studies Branch
Division of Tuberculosis Elimination
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Slide #2: Building TB Behavioral and
Social Science Capacity within DTBE
Communications, Education, and Behavioral Studies Branch
- Conduct research on individual and social factors affecting health
seeking and treatment outcomes related to TB
- Provide consultation
- Provide technical assistance
- Coordinate behavioral science activities of DTBE, CDC, and others
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Slide #3: Building TB Behavioral and
Social Science Capacity within DTBE (cont.)
- Division staff with behavioral and social science backgrounds
- Communications, Education, and Behavioral Studies Branch
- Clinical and Health Systems Research Branch, Health Systems Research
Team
- Association of Schools of Public Health fellows
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Slide #4: Selected Current Behavioral and Social
Science Projects in DTBE Patient Studies
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Slide #5: Patient Studies
Perceptions of TB Among Foreign-born Persons:An Ethnographic Study
- To understand the culturally-mediated perceptions, attitudes, and
experiences regarding TB among five foreign-born populations in the
U.S.
Culturally Appropriate Patient TB Education Materials
- To develop culturally and linguistically appropriate patient TB education
materials
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Slide #6: Patient Studies (Continued)
Social Network Techniques in Expanding Women’s Access to LTBI Treatment
- To assess the usefulness of social network techniques as tools to
increase the identification of women during contact investigations
Study of Factors Associated with Acceptance of and Adherence to Treatment
for LTBI
- To assess the knowledge, attitudes, and culture-specific beliefs
about LTBI among several high risk groups
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Slide #7: Provider Studies
Identifying Barriers to the Implementation of the 2000 Targeted Testing
and Treatment for LTBI Recommendations among Private Providers
- To Identify barriers to the acceptance, implementation, and adherence
to the guidelines and development of strategies to overcome barriers
Factors Influencing Health Care Worker Adherence to Worksite TB Screening
and Treatment Policies
- To identify factors that facilitate or hinder health care workers’
abilities or decisions to adhere to local protocols for annual TST and
LTBI treatment
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Slide #8: Research Activities in the
TB Epidemiologic Research Consortium
- Task Order 11: Addressing TB Disease Among African Americans in the
Southeast
- Task Order 12: Assessing TB Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, and Practices
Among Private Providers Serving Foreign-born Populations
- Task Order 14: Developing Culturally Appropriate Educational Materials
for Hispanic Service Organizations
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Slide #9: This figure is the theme picture
to the TB Behavioral and Social Science Research Forum: Planting the Seeds
for Future Research. The picture consists of four illustrations: person’s
hand planting seeds, watering can watering the seeds, a plant sprouting,
and a tree that has grown.
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Slide #10: TB Behavioral and Social
Science Research Forum - 2003
Goals
- Identify and prioritize TB behavioral and social science research
gaps
- Develop a feasible, goal-oriented research agenda that will guide
TB behavioral and social science activities over a 5-year period
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Slide #11: Planned TB Activities Related to
the Forum
- Systematic inventory and review of published TB behavioral and social
science literature
- A behavioral science list-serv for ongoing discussion and information
exchange
- Ongoing workgroups on derived themes
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Slide #12: Tuberculosis is a social disease,
and presents problems that transcend the conventional medical approach.
- Rene and Jean Dubos, 1952
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Slide #13: We’ve only just begun… - Karen Carpenter
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