The relationship between the level of knowledge and family attitudes to wards efforts to prevent tuberculosis disease in the pulmonary disease Clinic Vita Insani Pematangsiantar

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The number of TB cases recorded in the pulmonary clinic of Vita Insani Hospital in 2023 reached 67 cases. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the level of knowledge and family attitudes towards efforts to prevent tuberculosis disease. This study is a quantitative study with a cross sectional design, the sample in this study were pulmonary TB patients obtained by total sampling technique. Data analysis used was univariate and bivariate analysis. Bivariate analysis using the Spearman correlation test. The results of univariate analysis showed that 71.7% of the majority of families had good knowledge of TB prevention efforts, 55% of families had a positive attitude towards TB prevention efforts and 66.7% of families had good TB prevention efforts. Bivariate analysis with the Spearman Correlation test with ?=0.05, the results of the analysis showed that there was a relationship between knowledge and efforts to prevent TB disease (p value=0.000), and there was a relationship between respondents' attitudes and efforts to prevent TB disease (p value=0.003). TB disease prevention efforts that can be carried out by families as against TB disease are increased health promotion.