A study on Health seeking behaviour towards symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis in Rural field practice area of tertiary medical Institute Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Dr Ujjwal Sourav; Dr Gagan Garg; Haripal singh

Volume : IX, Issue : IV, April - 2020

A study on Health seeking behaviour towards symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis in Rural field practice area of tertiary medical Institute Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Dr Ujjwal Sourav, Dr Gagan Garg, Haripal Singh

Abstract :

Introduction– India contributes almost 30% of the global Tuberculosis (TB) burden with prevalence rate of 195 per 100,000 population nationally. Materials and Methods: This is community based cross–sectional study in field practice area of tertiary medical institute , Hapur, UP in all men and women aged 15 years and above who consented to participate are included in the study. Result : In our study we found that 97.8% study participants heard about TB. Table 1 presents the knowledge regarding TB, About 80–85% study participants had the correct knowledge about different aspect of TB, only 10.4% heard about DOTS centre. Only about 58.6% study participants consider going to health facility if they had cough, only 35.8% study participant will take it in supportive manner if someone known is diagnosed to have TB. Conclusion: The study concludes that Overall health seeking behavior towards TB symptom and attitude towards TB was higher among males, younger age and higher schooling respondents