Descriptive Study: Level of Communities Knowledge And Perception About Tuberculosis (TB) in Denpasar, Bali

Abstract

Background: Success rate of Indonesia Tuberculosis (TB) treatment did not evenly distribute to every province in 2016, although various program had been carried out by Indonesia Government. Bali’s Case Notification Rate (CNR) and Success Rate (SR) of TB also did not reach target in 2017. Successful control of TB can be influenced by community’s level of knowledge and perception about TB. Our research objective was to know communities level of knowledge and perception about TB in Denpasar, Bali.
 Method: This was cross-sectional research. Our sample was Denpasar communities who visited Puputan Renon Field Car Free Day (CFD) at 25 March 2018. Sample was chosen by consecutive sampling.
 Results: Our research result was almost (62%) of respondent had poor knowledge about TB and 67% respondent had right perception about TB.
 Conclusion: We can conclude that Denpasar communities had poor level of knowledge and good perception about TB.

Cultural factors and family behavior in preventing the transmission of TB in The Nusa Tenggara Region, Indonesia

“…The belief that connects TB disease with mystical things and genetic inheritance leads families to use traditional medicine (Maneze et al, 2015). This is further supported by the lack of knowledge identified in most articles (Andriani et al, 2020;Bukan et al, 2020;Fretes et al, 2021;Galyubi et al, 2021;Yosephina Elizabeth Sumartini Gunawan, 2019;Lay et al, 2020;Palele et al, 2022;Widiasari et al, 2020).…”

“…From the results of the analysis of the identified articles, various levels of knowledge were found in the articles analyzed, including poor knowledge (Bukan et al, 2020;Fretes et al, 2021;Galyubi et al, 2021;Palele et al, 2022;Widiasari et al, 2020) and good knowledge (Andriani et al, 2020;Lay et al, 2020;Nugroho et al, 2020). Lack of knowledge in families, especially regarding symptoms and causes (Bukan et al, 2020;Fretes et al, 2021;Widiasari et al, 2020), prevention of events, and transmission (Galyubi et al, 2021;Palele et al, 2022).…”

“…From the results of the analysis of the identified articles, various levels of knowledge were found in the articles analyzed, including poor knowledge (Bukan et al, 2020;Fretes et al, 2021;Galyubi et al, 2021;Palele et al, 2022;Widiasari et al, 2020) and good knowledge (Andriani et al, 2020;Lay et al, 2020;Nugroho et al, 2020). Lack of knowledge in families, especially regarding symptoms and causes (Bukan et al, 2020;Fretes et al, 2021;Widiasari et al, 2020), prevention of events, and transmission (Galyubi et al, 2021;Palele et al, 2022). As previously explained, knowledge is the basis for decision making; this is reflected in the analyzed articles where most families with knowledge more or less prefer to self-medicate or not take treatment at all when the symptoms they feel do not interfere with daily activities.…”

“…Consequently, families cannot carry out their duties as supporters of TB patients in carrying out treatment and preventing transmission (Galyubi et al, 2021). Wrong perceptions about TB disease result in the emergence of bad habits in the family about TB disease (Yosephina E. S. Gunawan, 2015b; Yosephina E. S. Gunawan & Ina, 2017;Yosephina Elizabeth Sumartini Gunawan, 2019;Widiasari et al, 2020).…”

“…Several factors have been identified as the cause of the above conditions. One of the causes found in most articles is the low level of education (Andriani et al, 2020;Bukan et al, 2020;Fretes et al, 2021;Galyubi et al, 2021;Lay et al, 2020;Nugroho et al, 2020;Palele et al, 2022;Widiasari et al, 2020). The level of education is associated with the ability to digest information, seek, and utilize existing resources to increase knowledge and readiness as a provider of advanced care for patients at home.…”