Arifin, Syamsul; Muhyi, Ruslan; Setyaningrum, Ratna; Rahman, Fauzie; Lenie, Marlianae
Description:
Pulmonary tuberculosis is still a public health problem in the world, one of them in Indonesia. Based on data from the Health Research in 2013 it is known that as many as 14 098 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis were examined by medical personnel and the use of Oat Anti Tuberculosis (OAT) still amounted to 39.6%. This research aims to develop indicators cure pulmonary tuberculosis in Banjarmasin to analyze the risk factors for pulmonary tuberculosis cure such as: medication adherence, TB patient characteristics, and treatment supporter of the nuclear family. This research is observational analytic quantitative approach. The population of this study were 47 patients with pulmonary TB, the samples were 30 respondents. The research instrument used was a questionnaire. The research variables include the performance of PMO, medication adherence and characteristics (age, gender, education and income) pendetia pulmonary TB. Based on Chi Square test, found a link between the performance of PMO with adherence (p = 0.013), and there is no relationship between the characteristics of the respondent compliance, age (p = 1.000), gender (p = 1.000), education (p = 1.000) , income (p = 1.000).