Patterns of individual compliance with anthelmintic treatment for soil-transmitted helminth infections in southern Ethiopia over six rounds of community-wide mass drug administration.

Rosie MaddrenB CollyerA E PhillipsS Rayment GomezB AbtewU AnjuloD TadeleA SharmaA TamiruE FirdawekM ChernetR M Anderson

Published in: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2023)

The study reports the largest dataset of individual longitudinal compliance to cMDA for STH control. Clear pattens are shown in the age-dependent distribution of individual compliance behaviour. The impact of compliance on the probability of elimination is significant, highlighting the importance of recording the full frequency distribution, not just the never-treated proportion.

Keyphrases

drug administration
healthcare
mental health
emergency department
newly diagnosed
replacement therapy