My Latent Tuberculosis Treatment - mobile application to assist in adherence to latent tuberculosis treatment

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), latent tuberculosis occurs through latent infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis without evidence of active tuberculosis (TB) symptoms. As patients don’t develop the same symptoms as active TB, the treatment is abandoned before the end, as it lasts about six months. This leads to significant treatment avoidance, requiring new forms of adherence to latent TB treatment. One of the strategies to help to latent TB treatment is the possibility of using applications for mobile devices, once the use of ICTs to aid in the treatment of LTBI can increase the rate of treatment adherence. Thus, this work aimed to study the creation of a technology that helps the adherence of these patients, being made available an application that is easy to use, intuitive, free and developed in a language for Android phones, which accompany the patient throughout the treatment.