Abstract
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is still a major public health concern. Knowledge about disease is known to have significant impact on health seeking behavior among the disease sufferer. Currently, it is not known whether there is association of knowledge about tuberculosis and health seeking behavior among people living in rural community. Therefore, this study is conducted to determine tuberculosis knowledge, socio-demographic factors, and risk factors of tuberculosis among rural and orang asli community in Bera district. METHODS: This is cross sectional study and 126 samples were collected from 5 rural areas under operational areas of Klinik Kesihatan Purun which is comprised of FELDA locality and Orang Asli Village. Face-to-face interview by trained personnel using pretested structured questionnaire was used to obtain demographic, knowledge, and clinical data from respondents RESULTS: Out of 126 respondents, 107 (85%) had known about what tuberculosis is. 90 (72%) respondents know about correct knowledge about perceived cause of tuberculosis, correct knowledge about body parts could be infected by tuberculosis (n=69, 55%), mode of transmission of tuberculosis, (n=66, 53%), is it tuberculosis curable, (n=120, 96%), how tuberculosis is cured, (n=86, 69%), how tuberculosis is prevented (n=89, 71%), is it HIV/AIDS is related to tuberculosis? (n=64, 51%). Most of respondents shown appropriate health seeking behavior in response to tuberculosis symptoms (83%) CONCLUSION: Inadequate knowledge about tuberculosis among rural people should be tackled by health care workers. Health seeking behavior also needed to be addressed to improve early detection of tuberculosis.
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-119,
title = {An Assessment of Knowledge, Health Seeking Behaviour, and Risk Factors Among Orang Asli and Rural Community Regarding Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Bera District, Pahang},
author = {Mohd Fazeli Sazali and Muhammad Fadhilah Khawailid and Azuwa Arif and Shaharanizah Hassan},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is still a major public health concern. Knowledge about disease is known to have significant impact on health seeking behavior among the disease sufferer. Currently, it is not known whether there is association of knowledge about tuberculosis and health seeking behavior among people living in rural community. Therefore, this study is conducted to determine tuberculosis knowledge, socio-demographic factors, and risk factors of tuberculosis among rural and orang asli community in Bera district. METHODS: This is cross sectional study and 126 samples were collected from 5 rural areas under operational areas of Klinik Kesihatan Purun which is comprised of FELDA locality and Orang Asli Village. Face-to-face interview by trained personnel using pretested structured questionnaire was used to obtain demographic, knowledge, and clinical data from respondents RESULTS: Out of 126 respondents, 107 (85%) had known about what tuberculosis is. 90 (72%) respondents know about correct knowledge about perceived cause of tuberculosis, correct knowledge about body parts could be infected by tuberculosis (n=69, 55%), mode of transmission of tuberculosis, (n=66, 53%), is it tuberculosis curable, (n=120, 96%), how tuberculosis is cured, (n=86, 69%), how tuberculosis is prevented (n=89, 71%), is it HIV/AIDS is related to tuberculosis? (n=64, 51%). Most of respondents shown appropriate health seeking behavior in response to tuberculosis symptoms (83%) CONCLUSION: Inadequate knowledge about tuberculosis among rural people should be tackled by health care workers. Health seeking behavior also needed to be addressed to improve early detection of tuberculosis.},
note = {Type: POSTER PRESENTATION; Organisation: Klinik Kesihatan Purun, Bera, Pahang, Malaysia, Pejabat Kesihatan Daerah Bera, Pahang, Malaysia,},
keywords = {apcph2019, Health Seeking Behavior, Knowledge, Orang Asli, Rural, tuberculosis},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}