Depression, anxiety and tuberculosis are common conditions with significant public health implications. The connection among these conditions is syndemic: the incidence of one increases the chance of developing the other, with clusters of biological, social and psychological interaction. Therefore, it has become crucial to understand better the mechanisms liable for the physiological process
related to these three conditions.
The present
review focuses specifically on shared social events (perception of illness severity,
social stigma,
poverty and social isolation) and biological pathways (central response of the immune system within the CNS, the activation of the HPA axis and the SNS) that may mechanistically elucidate the depression-anxiety-tuberculosis association and discuss interventions prospects and significant issues to be arranged by future clinical and research implications.
Tuberculosis Anxiety Depression1. Introduction
Tuberculosis (TB), the oldest human pandemic, remains the leading cause of death among infectious diseases, regardless of the worldwide use of a live attenuated vaccine and several other efficient antibiotics [1]. The disease is caused by infection via the lung with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), identified as a pathogen by Robert Koch in 1882. TB is predominantly a lung disease, with pulmonary TB responsible for 70% of cases, although Mtb can spread to other organs, including lymph nodes, bone, and meninges, causing extrapulmonary disease [2].
In 2019, 10.0 million people suffered TB, and 1.2 million people died due to this disease [3]. Moreover, one-quarter of the global human population is latently infected, providing a large reservoir for upcoming cases of active TB [4], mostly in the underdeveloped world due to poverty, absence of healthy living environments and adequate medical care [1]. Another problem related to poverty is the prevalence of common mental disorders (CMD), including depression, anxiety and somatoform disorders [5]. In recent years, mental disorders’ burden continues to grow with significant impacts on health and principal social, human rights and economic consequences in all countries associated with increased functional disability and mortality [6].
Depression is a mental disorder that manifests with depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, decreased energy, state of mind of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, and lousy concentration [7]. Depression accounts for 4.4% of total disability-adjusted life-years worldwide and is estimated to affect 350 million people and 1.0 million commit suicide each year [8]. Furthermore, depression frequently associates with anxiety symptoms [7], and the incidence of depression is high amongst people with chronic disease [9].
Anxiety is a vague, subjective, non-specific feeling of uneasiness, apprehension, tension, (excessive nervousness) fears, and a sense of impending doom, irrational avoidance of objects or situation and anxiety attack [6]. Moreover, anxiety is associated with decreased functioning and quality of life, and can occur in the context of medical illness, which is one of the most frequent reactions that accompany the onset or recurrence of respiratory illness [10]. However, most of those with mental health problems are not diagnosed or treated ineffectively in low and middle-income countries [11].
Both CMD and TB are global public health problems that have a considerable impact on human health. Moreover, TB and CMD share common risk factors including poverty, drugs addiction and homelessness. Nevertheless, the disease’s microbiological resolution spends much of the attention within TB control [12], and its relationship with CMD is either unappreciated or hardly ever considered. However, in recent years the number of epidemiological studies about the association between CMD and TB has been increased. Lung diseases are among the chronic medical conditions that are strongly related to psychiatric disorders [13]. Evidence shows that anxiety, depression and emotional distress are significant dimensions on the matter and incapacity of TB and they are strictly related to the severity of symptoms, the quantity of reported symptoms, higher rates of health services use, low treatment compliance, more extensive course of treatment, reduced control of the disease and death (Figure 1) [14].
The current review compiles the epidemiological information connecting TB and depression and anxiety. Additionally, we present biological mechanisms that would explain the TB-depression-anxiety association. We conclude by discussing interventional prospects and significant issues to be arranged by future clinical and research implications.
2. Epidemiological Information for a Bidirectional Link between Anxiety, Depression and TB
Epidemiological evidence supports an association between depression, anxiety and TB. In the current review, we made a systematic analysis of research focused on the relationship of TB with anxiety and depression from 1981 to 2020. Different surveys have been used to evaluate depression and anxiety in patients with TB (such as Beck’s depression inventory, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, among others), these surveys use factors that make it possible to distinguish between the common symptoms of tuberculosis infection and those developed in these psychiatric illnesses. Interesting, in high income and low and middle-income countries there is an important relationship between TB, anxiety and depression, and countries with a high prevalence of TB like India, Pakistan and China have reported a strong association of the disease with the mentioned mental disorders (Figure 2). Although most of the studies do not provide specific information or biological mechanisms which could explain the link between TB and CMD, it is crucial to notice that the prevalence of depression among TB patients ranges between 1.71% to 87.5% [15] [16] and anxiety between 7.14% to 74% [17] [18]. The difference might be due to the unlikeness in study design, data collection tool, sample size and the difference in participants and country population. These findings demonstrate that TB and CMD’s link is more robust than between CMD and other diseases, such as obesity or cancer, ranging from 25% to 33% [8]. Patients with more prolonged illness duration have a higher incidence of depression and anxiety [19], and depression is higher in patients with
pulmonary than extrapulmonary TB [18]. An important aspect is that even under treatment, TB patients still suffer depression and anxiety scores remained high [20] [21], being adult patients more prone to depression [22]. Moreover, multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) patients present higher levels of depression [16] [23] [24] [25]. Besides, TB patients present low to moderate rates of suicidal ideation (9.0%) and a history of suicide attempt (3.1%) [15]. Table 1 summarises previous reports of epidemiological information about depression and/or anxiety among TB patients.
3. Social Events Linking Depression, Anxiety and TB
Most research in patients with TB and its relationship with depression and anxiety has focused on the prevalence of these psychiatric diseases in patients with TB and its epidemiological importance. The causes of these diseases have been related in most cases to social factors such as social stigma, perception of illness severity, poverty and social isolation. Risk factors, including medical co-morbidities, drug abuse, alcohol dependence, and low educational attainment levels are significant predictors of depression in patients with TB (Figure 3) [28]. This section of the review will present social factors related to depression and anxiety in TB patients.
3.1. Perception of Illness Severity
Most of the patients considered TB as an infectious and deadly disease that could be cured with great difficulty and a high relapse rate. They perceived TB as a disease that caused social stigmatisation and tended to deny the diagnosis and
Overview of research examining the association between depression, anxiety and Tuberculosis
Place
Cite
Sample
Scale
Depression
Anxiety
India
Mathai et al., 1981 [17]
70 and 70 HC
ICD-9
15.71%
7.14%
Nigeria
Aghanwa & Erhabor, 1998 [23]
53
ICD-10/GHQ-30
30.2%
Turkey
Aydin & Uluşahin, 2001 [26]
119
CIDI, ICD-10, DSM-IV and GHQ-12
21%
20.3%
Peru
Vega et al., 2004 [24]
75
DSM-IV
52.2%
8.7%
Pakistan
Husain et al., 2008 [8]
108
HAD
46.3%
47.2%
Nigeria
Issa et al., 2009 [27]
65
PHQ-9
27.7%
England
Kruijshaar et al., 2010 [20]
61
SF-36/EQ-5D
48%
22%
Pakistan
Aamir & Aisha, 2010 [28]
65
HAD
72.2%
72.2%
Pakistan
Sulehri et al., 2010 [29]
60
BDI-II
80%
Nigeria
Ige & Lasebikan, 2011 [30]
88
HAD
45.5%
Romania
Adina et al., 2011 [31]
60
BDI/STAI
78%
42%
South Africa
Peltzer et al., 2013 [32]
4900
Kessler-10
81.1%
32.9%
Peru
Ugarte-Gil et al., 2013 [33]
325
CES-D
37%
Zambia
Van den Heuvel et al., 2013 [14]
231
DSM-IV/ICD-10
9.3%
27.9%
Pakistan
Rubeen et al., 2014 [21]
70 and 70 HC
HAD
37.1%
37.1%
Malaysia
Atif et al., 2014 [34]
336
SF-36
67.1%
The Philippines
Masumoto et al., 2014 [35]
561
PHQ-9
16.8%
Turkey
Kibrisli et al., 2015 [36]
94 and 99 HC
LSAS
68.4%
India
Singh et al., 2015 [19]
100 and 100 HC
ICD-10/TMAS/BDI
44%
38%
Ethiopia
Duko et al., 2015 [37]
424
HAD
43.4%
41.5%
Iran
Emami et al., 2015 [38]
146
SCL-90
52.7%
41.1%
Taiwan
Yen et al., 2015 [15]
4629
ICD-9-CM
1.71%
India
Kumar et al., 2016 [22]
100
GHQ-12/BDI-II/HARS
47.29%
52.71%
Sri Lanka
Galhenage et al., 2016 [39]
430
HAD
25.2%
14.7%
China
Chen et al., 2016 [40]
1105
SDS/SAS
29.8%
13.5%
Turkey
Yilmaz et al., 2016 [41]
208
HAD
60.5%
26%
Pakistan
Amreen & Rizvi, 2016 [42]
100
PHQ-9/GAD-7
56%
65%
Cameroon
Kehbila et al., 2016 [43]
265
PHQ-9
61.1%
Angola
Paulo & Peixoto, 2016 [44]
81
HAD
49.4%
38.3%
Brazil
Dos Santos et al., 2017 [45]
86
HAD
31.4%
38.4%
Afghanistan
Javaid et al., 2017 [16]
289
DSM-IV/HAM-D
87.5%
India
Shyamala et al., 2018 [18]
262
PHQ-9
80.37%
74%
China
Wang et al., 2018 [11]
1252
HAD/PHQ-9
18.13%
18.37%
China
Gong et al., 2018 [46] Qiu et al., 2018 [47]
1342
CES-D
48%
Pakistan
Walker et al., 2018 [48]
1279
PHQ-9
42.8%
74%
India
Salodia et al., 2019 [49]
106
PHQ-9
23.6%
Brazil
De Castro-Silva et al., 2019 [50]
260
PHQ-9
60.2%
Ethiopia
Dasa et al., 2019 [51]
403
PHQ-9
51.9%
Nepal
Walker et al., 2019 [25]
135
HSCL-25
22.2%
15.6%
Ethiopia
Ambaw et al., 2020 [52]
648
PHQ-9
73.6%
Ethiopia
Mohammedhussein et al., 2020 [53]
410
HAD
55.9%
54.6%
This table was made with information from research between 1981 and 2020. There are blank spaces when the cited article just reported the data or either depression or anxiety. Healthy Controls (HC). 30-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-30). Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II). Beck’s depression inventory (BDI). Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). Composite international diagnostic interview (CIDI). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions (EQ-5D). General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12). Generalised Anxiety Disorder Questionnaire (GAD-7). Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS). Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D). Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL-25). Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 (HSCL-25). Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD). International Classification of Disease, tenth edition (ICD-10). International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Edition, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM). Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (Kessler-10). Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS). Riker Sedation-Agitation Scale (SAS). Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS). Short Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36). State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90). Taylor’s Manifest Anxiety Scale (TMAS). The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9).
conceal the treatment. Moreover, TB patients are perceived as infectious by others within the community, which has various social consequences, such as stigmatisation, social isolation, and rejection of the patient and family members [54]. These social consequences made patients delay seeking help, deny the diagnosis, and reject the treatment, contributing to TB transmission and prevalence [55]. Concerning mental diseases, it has been noticed that TB patients react to the disclosure of the diagnosis with worry (50%) and suicidal thoughts (9%), and the initial diagnosis has been associated with subsyndromal depression [15] [32].
3.2. Social Stigma
TB is known to be a social illness condition that involves profound emotional experiences, alienation from family members and isolation. Besides, TB is accepted as a stigmatising disease, as well [41]. Stigmatisation is a social element of health and a vital factor which impedes the treatment of the many mental illnesses. Some studies have shown that similarly, it affects TB treatment, mostly in developing countries [56]. TB carries a social stigma due to the infection’s perceived consequences, based mostly on set cultural and social understandings of the disease [57]. Most authors identify the perceived contagiousness of TB as a leading cause of stigmatisation. Other factors that contribute to stigmatisation are the lack of knowledge regarding routes of TB transmission, malnutrition, poverty, being foreign-born, low social class, homelessness, drug addiction, to affected individual’s community, believes that the patient must have done something wrong to deserve to be infected [57] [58]. Stigma and discrimination cause low uptake of health services, delayed diagnosis and inadequate treatment compliance; there is an increased risk of drug resistance. Furthermore, TB stigma has an observable association with stigmatised groups’ mental health [59]. TB patients report facing social stigma and isolation from family and friends and suffering from depression and anxiety due to their disease [60]. Thus, social stigma may be related to depression and anxiety in TB patients.
3.3. Poverty
TB is an infectious disease with both medical and social dimensions, characterised by its close relation to poor socio-economic conditions as TB infection can substantially impact economic opportunities [41]. It is the socio-economic development and poverty that drive TB rates globally. When the patients’ income levels are considered, 20% of the patients with high-income present psychiatric morbidity, which contrasted with 39% of patients with low socio-economic income [53]. Thus, the income levels of TB patients have an essential role in the presence of depression and anxiety.
3.4. Social Isolation
The most common outcome of TB stigma is isolation from other members of the community [54]. Negative responses from others who learn of a TB diagnosis can increase the physical effect of TB and the social impact of necessary isolation for TB patients [41]. TB patients became isolated after friends and relatives discontinued all communications after their TB diagnosis. Moreover, even after patients were determined to be “non-infectious” by public health care workers, their family and friends often viewed them as “unsafe” and avoided interacting with them. Almost all TB patients experienced some level of abandonment by friends or family, mostly due to fear and limited understanding of TB transmission [61] [62]. Thus, social isolation and rejection could contribute to depression and anxiety.
4. Biological Mechanisms Connecting Depression, Anxiety and TB
As we have mentioned, most of the research about the relationship of TB with depression and anxiety focus on the epidemiological aspect and the social causes of this association. However, research carried out in the past two decades has identified the role of the immune system’s activation as a potential biological mechanism in psychopathology development [63]. Another biological mechanism related to depression and anxiety is the activation of diverse neuroendocrine regulators (Figure 4). In this section, these mechanisms and their relationship with TB will be described.
4.1. Immuno-Inflammatory Activation
Inflammatory response plays an important role in the pathogenesis of both infectious and non-infectious diseases. Depression is frequently an co-morbidity
with both infectious and non-infectious diseases [64]. Active TB starts as a pulmonary exudative inflammatory process. Th1 lymphocytes mediate the protective adaptive immune response against TB with high production of IFN-γ and CD8+ T cytotoxic cells in animals and humans [65]. Mtb infection results in the induction of several cytokines, some of them playing an essential role in resistance, such as type 1 cytokines [66].
During the inflammatory process, cytokines can reach and overproduce in the brain by three different pathways: the neural, the cellular and the humoral pathways. In the neural pathway, immune stimuli activate pulmonary vagal afferents through cytokines released by cells involved in the immune response, or PAMS that can bind to receptors for cytokines and TLRs that exist in the end terminals of the vagus nerve. In the humoral pathway circulating IL1β, TNFα, and IL-6 can cross the blood-brain barrier and reach the cerebrospinal fluid, the fluid in the brain’s interstitial spaces, and the spinal cord through a saturable transporter-dependent mechanism that works at high cytokines plasma concentrations. Finally, in the cellular pathway, cells of the immune response can infiltrate the brain parenchyma through places that lack the blood-brain barrier [65]. Proinflammatory cytokines such as IFNγand TNFαmight affect the development of depressive disorder by regulating neuronal excitability, synaptic transmission, synaptic plasticity, and neuronal survival. These mechanisms generate brain inflammation, which induces depression by diverse pathophysiological processes, such as disturbing of monoaminergic neurotransmission, oxidative injury, and hippocampal neuronal damage [63]. Thus, peripheral inflammation generated in the lung by Mtb infection could be participating in the establishment of central nervous system inflammation and the development of neuropsychiatric diseases such as depression and anxiety in patients with TB. We have recently shown neuroinflammation, and these neuropsychiatric abnormalities in an experimental model of progressive pulmonary TB without brain infection [67].
4.2. Neuroendocrine Regulators
TB is characterised by chronic granulomatous inflammation of the lung that produces systemic immune–neuroendocrine responses that have been associated with its pathophysiology and disease outcome. TB affects nervous centres and many endocrine glands, including the hippocampus, hypothalamus, pituitary, thyroid and adrenals. The bidirectional interactions between the endocrine and immune systems are well known. Proinflammatory cytokines released during the immune response against Mtb mediate abnormal production of several hormones and modify the Central Nervous System (CNS) response by activating the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis [68], the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) [69] [70] and the vasopressinergic system [71]. These changes impair neuroendocrine activity, neurotransmitter function, neurocircuitry, and the immune response against Mtb.
4.2.1. The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis
The ability to rapidly and adaptively respond to environmental threats and stressors is critical to survival. Interactive physiological responses involving the HPA axis and the autonomous nervous systems influence metabolic, immune, and cardiovascular parameters to respond and adapt appropriately to environmental stressor factors [72]. One such mediator is the glucocorticoid (GC) cortisol, which is the end product of the HPA axis. Cortisol serves various crucial roles in promoting allostasis, mediating and suppressing healthy stress responses [73]. Nevertheless, chronic exposure to GCs leads to changes in the brain regions responsible for regulating the stress response (e.g. the hippocampus) and may contribute to the pathophysiology of anxiety and mood disorders [74].
Hypersecretion of ACTH and glucocorticoids at baseline and several neuroendocrine function tests convincingly indicate profound alterations of the HPA system in patients with severe depression [75]. Several investigations have shown baseline alterations in corticotropin and cortisol secretion in 20% - 50% of depressed patients and characteristic modifications in specific HPA system function tests such as the combined dexamethasone-CRH challenge test. These findings are consistently suggestive of HPA system overactivity in up to 90% of all investigated patients with major depression [76]. Additionally, anxiety disorders have also been related to differences in cortisol responses [77]. On the other hand, during experimental pulmonary TB, there is overactivity of the HPA system, adrenal glands double their weight, and an increase of plasma corticosterone responds to ACTH stimulation [68] [78]. Thus, the over activation of the HPA axis in TB patients may produce depression and anxiety.
4.2.2. Vasopressin
The hypothalamic neuropeptide arginine vasopressin (VP) plays an essential role in the pathophysiology of affective disorders and the HPA axis’s hyperactivity. After the first observation of HPA axis hyperactivity in depression, an increase in hypothalamic corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH) and hypothalamic AVP had been observed [79]. Postmortem studies and clinical research have described high VP levels in the brain and plasma of depressed patients. VP contributes to depressive and anxiety symptoms and shows anxiogenic and depressive actions [80]. Interestingly VP is abnormally high in plasma of some patients with pulmonary TB and is produced ectopically. Recently, in a BALB/c murine model of progressive pulmonary TB was showed that the VP gene is expressed mainly in macrophages from the lung since early infection, and progressively increased during disease progression. Moreover, chronic vasopressinergic stimulation during active late disease causes anti-inflammation and fibrosis, which is deleterious [71]. Additionally, circulating active neuropeptides like VP reach the brain parenchyma through the BBB in a minute [80], so it could be possible that the high levels of VP in the plasma of TB patients could be related to the anxiety and depression showed by these patients, if the ectopic production of VP reaches the brain.
4.2.3. The Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS)
The HPA axis and the SNS represent the principal pathways involved in the cross-talk between the brain and the immune system. The activation of the SNS in the context of an active immune system and stress results in the release of sympathetic neurotransmitters, especially norepinephrine (NE), which binds to β-adrenergic (βAR) and α-adrenergic (αAR) receptors expressed on peripheral immune cell populations [81]. The SNS has a central role in activating T cells and shifting the differentiation of haematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow to proinflammatory monocytes, increasing the expression of proinflammatory molecules. Simultaneously, central microglial cells activate in response to neural signals as a result of stress circuit activation. These cells facilitate the infiltration of peripheral monocytes by secretion of specific cytokines and chemokines, modulating endothelial cell permeability, and allowing monocytes’ ingress from the vascular lumen to the perivascular space and the brain parenchyma. The infiltrating proinflammatory monocytes lead to further sustained activation of neural stress circuits, resulting in abnormal behaviour. Besides, individuals who have developed psychopathology have elevated numbers of circulating proinflammatory monocytes and lymphocytes that amplified peripheral levels of cytokines and central microglial activation [63]. It has been shown that during early TB infection, adrenergic nerve terminals and lymphocytes located in pulmonary inflammatory infiltrates, and mediastinal lymph nodes produce high NE levels. These cells also overexpressed β2AR that promote Th-1 cell differentiation favouring protection, while during late infection NE production and β2AR expression sharply decreased, suggesting that during advanced disease the SNS activity contributes to establishing local proinflammatory activity [70]. Thus, it could be possible that in TB patients that developed psychopathology, the SNS not only participates in the peripheral immune modulation, but also in the activation of neural stress circuits which could be related with the anxiety and depression symptoms.
4.3. Brain Mechanisms
Patients with chronic inflammatory diseases and major depression have reduced circulating tryptophan (TRP) levels and increased levels of kynurenine and other metabolites of the enzyme Indolamine-2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), which is a major tryptophan catabolising enzyme within the brain, kidney, lung, spleen, duodenum and immune cells. IDO is the rate-limiting enzyme in the TRP kynurenine pathway that converts TRP, the precursor of serotonin, to kynurenine, resulting in reduced central serotonin synthesis. Proinflammatory cytokines such as TNFαand IFNγcan up-regulate IDO expression activating the kynurenine pathway, decreasing central serotonin levels and contributing to anxiety and depressive symptoms. The kynurenine pathway metabolites are also neuroactive because kynurenine ratio to TRP is undoubtedly associated with depressive symptoms [82].
TB is a chronic infection with a rise in the synthesis of IFNγ, inducing IDO enzyme and leading TRP to the kynurenine pathway from the serotonin pathway [83]. The neurotoxic metabolites of the kynurenine pathway like 3-hydroxy-kynurenine and quinolinic acid generate free radicals that mediate neuronal damage and excitotoxicity, not only by stimulating N-Methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors but also directly causing the release of glutamate [84]. This might be associated with the development of anxiety depressive symptoms in TB patients. Moreover, this excessive excitotoxicity produced neuronal death provoking significant abnormalities in memory and cognitive functions.
5. Clinical and Research Implications
Since 1985, it has been proposed that individuals with TB need more effective public health interventions and psychiatric treatment [85]. People with TB and mental illness are at more significant risk of poor health-seeking behaviour and medication adherence with consequent adverse treatment outcomes including morbidity, mortality and ongoing disease transmission. Moreover, the potential for depression and anxiety to impair adherence to complex TB medication regimens is challenging in terms of individual patient outcomes and is a risk to public health by the potential for the development of multidrug resistance. Treating depression and anxiety and working with the patients to improve their disease perceptions will improve treatment adherence, disease outcomes and patient managing.
TB clinics must develop policies to screen and treat depression and anxiety among TB patients. Additional research on risk factors of depression and anxiety should be conducted to reinforce and broaden the current findings. Developing methods to address mental health issues associated with TB will lead to innovative methods of TB care and prevention. Furthermore, integrating TB and mental health services will go a long way in addressing the needs of susceptible populations and stopping the transmission of one of the most significant infectious disease. A better understanding of these issues can lead to TB programs’ client-oriented comprehensive efforts to improve patients’ quality of life.
Successful health programs address the disease’s social and emotional impact and adopt support strategies to enhance acceptance. To design such a client-oriented comprehensive program for TB, we need to understand patients’ perceptions regarding their physical, mental and social well-being.
6. Conclusions
TB, anxiety and depression are diseases of high incidence in the population. These diseases are currently a significant public health problem. As we have seen, they have risk factors in common, and their relationship is syndemic, the presence of one favours the development of the other and the worsening of the disease. There is significant co-morbidity between TB and mental illness, and the treatment of patients with TB must be made integrally with the treatment of depression and anxiety. Anxiety and depression are factors that can influence the compliance and well-being of the patient.
Identifying risk factors and developing treatments to reduce these psychiatric diseases in patients with TB will allow us to control the disease better and stop its spread to other people and reduce multidrug resistance cases. Finally, more research is needed to comprehend the biological factors that could influence depression and anxiety in TB patients.
Evaluation and treatment of TB patients’ mental disorders, which are significantly higher than the general population, may increase treatment compliance and reduce relapse. This can upgrade the prognosis and quality of life for patients with this chronic disease. Further prospective studies are needed to assess depression and anxiety in TB, especially concerning antitubercular therapy.
Acknowledgements
Jacqueline Viridiana Lara-Espinosa is affiliated to Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Bioquimicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and receives fellowship from Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) (CVU 630838).
Author Contributions
J.V.L.-E. writing, review and editing, R.H.-P review and editing. Both authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.
Cite this paper
Lara-Espinosa, J.V. and Hernández-Pando, R. (2021) Psychiatric Problems in Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Depression and Anxiety. Journal of Tuberculosis Research, 9, 31-50. https://doi.org/10.4236/jtr.2021.91003
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