3.9. Personal factors – experience of medication and resilience
strategies
For those participants not receiving DOT, a dominant theme
was the way treatment regimens impacted on everyday routines,
compounded by the number and size of tablets and frequency of
dosing.26 A healthcare worker taking medication for both HIV
and TB spoke of the day dominated by pills and the difficulty of
taking the prescribed regimen when trying to maintain daily
routines such as shopping. She took nine pills in the morning,
seven at lunch time, three in the afternoon, and seven at night.
The only way to manage her regimen was to skip the afternoon
dose: