Some determinants of successful and unsuccessful adaptation to hospital treatment of tuberculosis.

Abstract

"This study examined some relationships of the tuberculous patient''s (a) family of orientation, (b) prehospital life adjustment, (c) verbalized attitudes toward situationsin the hospital, (d) behaviors in the hospital, and (e) current outside-the-hospital situations, to his success or lack of success in remaining in the hospital until his treatment was completed.... It was concluded that hospitalization is but the most recent of a long series of life situations in which the irregular discharge patient has demonstrated his inability to make an adequate adjustment.".