ANALYSIS OF RISK FACTORS FOR PULMONARY TB INCIDENCE IN WORK AREA HEALTH KERTAPATI PALEMBANG

Abstract

Background: Tubercullosis (TB) Lung as a public health problem that is very important and serious worldwide and is a disease that causes global emergencies (Global Emergency). Indonesia is the country with the fourth highest prevalence. Pulmonary TB incidence is influenced by host factors (Host) and the environment. Kertapati Public health Centre with highest number of cases in 2013. Numbers of cases  from October 2013 to December 2014 amounted to 89 cases. The purpose of this study was to determine the risk factors of pulmonary TB

Method: This study used case control design. The number of subjects was 66 consisting of 33 cases and 33 controls. Data is collected using medical records of patients at the health center program Kertapati P2TB in Palembang in 2015, using questionnaires to measure variables residential neighborhood, with consecutive sampling techniques. Data was analyzed by univariate and bivariate

Result: The incidence of pulmonary TB associated with age (OR 0.3; 95% CI 0.12-0.89), the last of education (OR 3.9: 95% CI 1.34-11.6), the type of floor (OR 16.7; 95% CI 4.63- 60.1), ventilation (OR 27.12; 95% CI 5.49-133.84), residential density (OR 4.3; 95% CI 1,39 - 12.95), the contact with TB (OR 4.7; CI 95% 1,44-15,075), nutritional status (OR 16.7; 95% CI 4.96- 56.4).

Conclusion: The risk factors associated with the incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis in Puskesmas Kertapati were age, level of education, nutritional status. Environmental factors include the density of residential housing, ventilation, types of flooring, as well as contacts with pulmonary TB patients. Suggestions for relevant agencies in order to prioritize efforts to promotive and preventive efforts to increase public knowledge about pulmonary TB, and a qualified home health through counseling or clinics sanitation, and to improve the provision of medical facilities and activities for early detection of the incidence of Tb lungs, infrastructure and health care coverage. The increase in per capita income families by providing entrepreneurial training in accordance with local wisdo

Keywords : Tubercullosis (TB) Lung, Environmental Housing, Risk Factors

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26553/jikm.2016.7.2.124-138