Factors Related to the Incidence of Tuberculosis in Garuda Health Center Bandung, West Java Province, Indonesia

Abstract

Background: Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that has
infected nearly a third of the world’s population. Puskesmas Garuda is the Puskesmas with the highest
number of tuberculosis cases in the city of Bandung. Efforts have been made, but have not been able to
overcome the incidence of tuberculosis..
Objectives: This study aims to look at the influence of knowledge, nutritional status and smoking
habits on the incidence of tuberculosis..
Methods: The method in this study is a quantitative method with Cross Sectional design. The population
in this study was patients who visited and registered in the patient register at Garuda Health Center.
A sample of 95 respondents was taken using a large sampling technique of varying proportions. The
sampling technique in this study is using simple sandom sampling techniques. The statistical test used
is the chi square test.
Results: Variables that have been shown to affect the incidence of tuberculosis are knowledge (p=0.018),
nutritional status (p=0.012), and smoking (p=0.000). (p=0,000).
Conclusion: The prevalence of tuberculosis is 41.1%. Factors of the risk of tuberculosis are knowledge,
nutritional status and numbness of smoking. People who are knowledgeable about tuberculosis. It is
recommended that health workers are advised to increase preventive and promotive efforts through
counseling about the risk factors of tuberculosis incidence to the public to increase public knowledge
in order to reduce the risk of tuberculosis infection.