Income group* | Country | Study population | Study design | Sample size and study | ||
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Newcastle–Ottawa scale score† | ||||||
HQ | MQ | LQ | ||||
Patient delay | ||||||
LIC | Ethiopia | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 216[24], 296[25], 360[26], 382[27], 398[28], 425[29], 605[30], 706[31], 924[32] | ||
People with presumptive TB | Case–control | 838[36] | ||||
Cross-sectional | ||||||
Mozambique | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 622[42] | |||
Tanzania | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 639[43] | 206[44] | ||
People with presumptive TB | Cross-sectional | 3388[45] | ||||
LMIC | Angola | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 385[46] | ||
Bangladesh | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 7280[47] | |||
Cambodia | People with TB | Mixed-methods | 96[48] | |||
India | People with TB | Cross-sectional | ||||
People with TB (children) | Cross-sectional | 175[53] | ||||
People with presumptive TB | Cross-sectional | 437[54] | ||||
Indonesia | People with presumptive TB | Cross-sectional | 194[55] | 746[56] | ||
Kenya | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 230[57] | |||
People with presumptive TB | Cross-sectional | 426[58] | ||||
Nigeria | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 102[61] | |||
Zambia | People with presumptive TB | Cross-sectional | 6708[62] | |||
Zimbabwe | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 383[63] | |||
UMIC | Brazil | People with TB | Cross-sectional | |||
TB-HIV co-infection | Prospective cohort | 201[71] | ||||
China | People with TB | Cross-sectional | ||||
Prospective cohort | 202[81] | |||||
Retrospective cohort | 75401[21] | |||||
People with presumptive TB | Cross-sectional | 1005[83] | ||||
Russia | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 105[84] | |||
South Africa | General population | Cross-sectional | 1020[85] | |||
People with presumptive TB | Cross-sectional | 104[86] | ||||
TB-HIV co-infection | Prospective cohort | 891[87] | ||||
Thailand | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 443[88] | 199[89] | ||
Health system delay | ||||||
LIC | Ethiopia | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 201[34] | ||
Nigeria | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 470[90] | |||
LMIC | Angola | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 385[46] | ||
UMIC | Brazil | People with TB | Cross-sectional | |||
China | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 314[72] | 146[75] | ||
Prospective cohort | 202[81] | |||||
Retrospective cohort | 4677[82] | |||||
South Africa | TB-HIV co-infection | Cross-sectional | 480[92] | |||
Treatment delay | ||||||
LIC | Tanzania | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 1161[93] | ||
LMIC | Bangladesh | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 123[94] | ||
Cambodia | People with TB | Mixed-methods | 96[48] | |||
India | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 150[51] | |||
Mixed-methods | 2027[96] | |||||
Retrospective cohort | ||||||
Zimbabwe | People with TB | Retrospective cohort | 2443[99] | |||
UMIC | China | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 314[100] | ||
Retrospective cohort | 4677[82] | |||||
South Africa | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 210[101] | |||
Total delay | ||||||
LIC | Ethiopia | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 201[34] | ||
Mozambique | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 622[42] | |||
Tanzania | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 206[44] | |||
LMIC | Bangladesh | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 7280[47] | ||
India | People with TB | Cross-sectional | ||||
Retrospective cohort | 656[104] | |||||
Indonesia | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 1116[105] | |||
Nigeria | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 450[60] | |||
Pakistan | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 844[106] | |||
UMIC | Brazil | People with TB | Case–control | 242[109] | ||
Cross-sectional | 304[70] | |||||
South Africa | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 210[101] | |||
TB-HIV co-infection | Prospective cohort | 891[87] | ||||
Thailand | People with TB | Cross-sectional | 443[88] |
Income group* | Country | Study population | Methods of analysis | Study and sample size | ConQual rating‡ | CASP score§ |
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Qualitative studies | ||||||
LIC | Ethiopia | People with TB, contacts of people with TB, and health care workers | Phenomenological analysis | 5 IDIs and 2 FGDs [110] | HQ | HQ |
People with TB | Thematic analysis | 26 IDIs [111] | HQ | HQ | ||
People with TB and policymakers | Thematic analysis | 19 IDIs [112] | HQ | HQ | ||
Mozambique | Caretakers of people with TB | Content analysis | 35 IDIs [113] | HQ | HQ | |
Tanzania | People with TB and traditional healers | Content analysis | 32 IDIs [114] | HQ | HQ | |
LMIC | Bangladesh | People with TB | Qualitative analysis of open-ended survey questions | 229 interviews [115] | MQ | MQ |
People with TB and health care workers | Qualitative analysis using apriori codes | 24 IDIs [116] | HQ | HQ | ||
Cambodia | People with TB, health care workers, and community volunteers | Thematic analysis | 43 IDIs and 6 FGDs [48] | MQ | HQ | |
People with TB and the general population | 13 FGDs [117] | HQ | HQ | |||
India | Health care workers | Thematic analysis | 16 IDIs [118] | HQ | HQ | |
People with TB | Not presented in the article | MQ | MQ | |||
108 structured interviews [120] | MQ | HQ | ||||
Qualitative analysis of open-ended survey questions | 229 interviews [115] | MQ | MQ | |||
People with TB and health care workers | Qualitative analysis using apriori codes | 19 IDIs [121] | MQ | HQ | ||
Thematic analysis | 71 IDIs [122] | HQ | HQ | |||
Indonesia | People with TB and community volunteers | Thematic analysis | 67 IDIs and 6 FGDs [123] | HQ | HQ | |
People with TB, TB survivors, village leaders, and community volunteers | Not presented in the article | 50 IDIs and 3 FGDs [124] | HQ | HQ | ||
Nigeria | General population | Thematic analysis | 56 IDIs [125] | MQ | HQ | |
Philippines | People with TB and the general population | Thematic analysis | 22 IDIs and 3 FGDs [126] | HQ | HQ | |
Zambia | People with TB and community volunteers | Thematic analysis | 30 IDIs and 6 FGDs [127] | MQ | HQ | |
Zimbabwe | People with presumptive TB | Grounded theory | 20 IDIs [128] | HQ | HQ | |
UMIC | Brazil | Health care workers | Discourse analysis | 16 IDIs [129] | MQ | HQ |
People with TB | Content analysis | 23 IDIs [130] | MQ | HQ | ||
Thematic analysis | 7 IDIs [131] | MQ | HQ | |||
Discourse analysis | 7 IDIs [132] | HQ | MQ | |||
China | People with TB | Qualitative analysis of open-ended survey questions | 70 interviews [133] | MQ | MQ | |
People with TB (migrants) | Thematic analysis | 34 IDIs [134] | MQ | HQ | ||
People with TB (migrants), People with presumptive TB, and health care workers | Framework approach | 60 IDIs and 12 FGDs [135] | MQ | HQ | ||
People with TB, health care workers, policymakers, and community volunteers | Thematic analysis | 47 IDIs and 5 FGDs [136] | MQ | HQ | ||
Russia | People with TB | Grounded theory | 5 FGDs [137] | HQ | HQ | |
People with TB and health care workers | 32 IDIs and 11 participants in FGDs (number of FGDs not specified) [138] | HQ | HQ | |||
South Africa | Contacts of people with TB, health care workers, policymakers, and people with TB (miners) | Thematic analysis and grounded theory | 104 applied ethnography using formal/informal IDIs, FGDs, field notes, and participant observations [139] | HQ | HQ | |
Health care workers, village leaders, and researchers | Thematic analysis | 12 IDIs [140] | HQ | HQ | ||
People with TB | 41 IDIs [141] | MQ | HQ | |||
People with TB, contacts of people with TB, and health care workers | 25 IDIs and 4 FGDs [142] | HQ | HQ | |||
People with TB, the general population, and community volunteers | 93 reports from participatory research and participants observation [143] | HQ | HQ | |||
People with TB and general population | Thematic analysis and grounded theory | 8 IDIs [144] | HQ | HQ | ||
Thailand | People with TB (migrants) and health care workers | Thematic analysis | 12 IDIs and 11 FGDs [145] | MQ | HQ |