Knowledge And Attitude Of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients Attending Bharatpur DOTS Centre, Chitwan

Suprabha Adhikari; Hem Kumari Subba

Volume : IV, Issue : VII, July - 2015

Knowledge And Attitude Of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients Attending Bharatpur DOTS Centre, Chitwan

Suprabha Adhikari, Hem Kumari Subba

Abstract :

Pulmonary Tuberculosis is an infectious bacterial disease caused by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis which is transmitted from person to person via droplets from the throat and lungs of people with the active respiratory diseases. This study is designed to find out the Pulmonary Tuberculosis patients� knowledge and attitude on PTB and treatment.A descriptive, crosssectional research design was used for the study. Total 50 PTB patients attending at Bharatpur DOTS Centre and willing to participate in the study were selected by using probability simple random sampling technique. A semi–structured interview schedule was used to collect the data. Data was analyzed by using SPSS and descriptive, inferential test and William�s test was applied.The study findings revealed that 34% of the respondents belonged to the age group 18–27 years, 74% of the respondents were in treatment category �New� and 58% were in continuous phase. Fifty eight percentage of the respondents had low level of knowledge and the level of knowledge of respondents was statistically significant with educational level (p=0.001) and marital status (p=0.027). There was strong positive correlation (r=0.709and p–value<0.001) between knowledge and attitude of the respondents. The difference in correlation coefficient was significant for the sex.This study showed that knowledge was low in several domains like cause, mode of transmission, duration of treatment and prevention of PTB. So, health education should be targeted towards these patients to increase their knowledge.