Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Decreased quality of life of TB patients can have a negative impact on the continuity of therapy which cause therapy failure. The quality of life of pulmonary TB patients is important to be evaluated in various aspects starting from the aspects of physical well-being, psychology, social and environmental relations. The purpose was to examine social support and influencing factors that influence the efforts on quality of life of pulmonary TB patients. This observational research used cross sectional design. The population for this study was all pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Palembang City. This study obtained a total sample of 111 people. The quality of life was measured by the Indonesian WHOQOL-BREFF questionareand the results were obtained by univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analysis using the 22 SPSS. From the 111 respondents it was obtained a good percentage of (71,7%) for quality of life of tuberculosis patients in Palembang City Health Centerand poor percentage of (28.83%). There was no significant relationship between demographic characteristics (age, sex, BMI, education, employment status, and marital status), blood pressure, history of diabetes, and history of smoking with the quality of life. There is a significant relationship between duration of treatment, family support, friend support, and community support with the quality of life of tuberculosis patients (p value <0.05). Patients with tuberculosis with poor family support have the opportunity to have a poor quality of life of 86.18%.
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-279, title = {Study of Social Support and Factors Affecting Efforts in Improving the Quality of Life for Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis}, author = {Pariyana and Iche Andriyani Liberty and Muhammad Aziz and Gresi Elyantari}, year = {2019}, date = {2019-07-22}, urldate = {2019-07-22}, journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings}, issue = {6}, abstract = {Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Decreased quality of life of TB patients can have a negative impact on the continuity of therapy which cause therapy failure. The quality of life of pulmonary TB patients is important to be evaluated in various aspects starting from the aspects of physical well-being, psychology, social and environmental relations. The purpose was to examine social support and influencing factors that influence the efforts on quality of life of pulmonary TB patients. This observational research used cross sectional design. The population for this study was all pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Palembang City. This study obtained a total sample of 111 people. The quality of life was measured by the Indonesian WHOQOL-BREFF questionareand the results were obtained by univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analysis using the 22 SPSS. From the 111 respondents it was obtained a good percentage of (71,7%) for quality of life of tuberculosis patients in Palembang City Health Centerand poor percentage of (28.83%). There was no significant relationship between demographic characteristics (age, sex, BMI, education, employment status, and marital status), blood pressure, history of diabetes, and history of smoking with the quality of life. There is a significant relationship between duration of treatment, family support, friend support, and community support with the quality of life of tuberculosis patients (p value \<0.05). Patients with tuberculosis with poor family support have the opportunity to have a poor quality of life of 86.18%.}, note = {Type: POSTER PRESENTATION; Organisation: Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Sriwijaya University, Palembang, Indonesia}, keywords = {Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Quality of Life, social support, sociodemographic characteristics}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {proceedings} }