A FINDING ANALYSIS OF TUBERCULOSIS SUSPECT CASE IN COMMUNITY

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the problems that still the leading cause of death in the word, including Indonesia as developing country. The purpose of study is to analyze the case finding of suspect tuberculosis in the community. The study was conducted in 4 villages in the district of Bandar petalangan, pelalawan with 148 samples by purposive sampling method. The data is collected by questionnaire in checklists form. Univariate and bivariate (chi square) were used in data analyse. The results showed that 8.7% of respondents as suspected tuberculosis, 0.5% of respondents neigthbours are tuberculosis patients 63% respondents are adults and the already 53.3% were male and 60.3% respondents did not work (students and housewives). There are the relationship between age and incidence of suspected tuberculosis (p value=0.008). tuberculosis case finding activities in order to eradicate tuberculosis case finding activities in order to eradicate tuberculosis program can done in the community through the empowerment of health works and families until tuberculosis disease transmission can be reduced.