Prevalence and associated factors of tuberculosis treatment abandonment.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of tuberculosis treatment abandonment and its associated factors.

Method: Cross-sectional study which used cases of tuberculosis in the System of Information on Notification Aggravations (Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação) from 2001 to 2017 in Ceará state. This study included 74,006 cases and the outcome was the closing situation "treatment abandonment".