KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF TUBERCULOSIS AMONG TB AND GENERAL PATIENTS AT URBAN PRIMARY HEALTH CENTER, CBD BELAPUR, MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA.

Dr Ridhima Chetan Vohra; Miss. Dhasarathi Kumar

Volume : VII, Issue : X, October - 2018

KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF TUBERCULOSIS AMONG TB AND GENERAL PATIENTS AT URBAN PRIMARY HEALTH CENTER, CBD BELAPUR, MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA.

Dr Ridhima Chetan Vohra, Miss. Dhasarathi Kumar

Abstract :

Background:Totally 10.4 million new tuberculosis cases are found during the year of 2016 in worldwide and 64 percentage of the cases are from India, Indonesia, China, Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria and South Africa.

Methods and Design: A cross sectional quantitative study was conducted. For the purpose of getting data on the knowledge of general patients and treatment seeking behavior of TB patients. A complete enumeration sampling technique was employed for collection of data from TB patients via household survey; simple random sampling technique was used for general patients.

Result: It was observed that all the respondents have heard about TB at some point in their life and only 20% of the TB patients were aware about RNTCP. 52% patients got to know about TB from the Doctor.