The effect of 'TB Mataho' health cadres in improving self-care capacity of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis

Autor: Muhtar Muhtar, Aniharyati Aniharyati
Jazyk: indonéština
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Media Keperawatan Indonesia, Vol 4, Iss 4, Pp 256-263 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2615-1669
DOI: 10.26714/mki.4.4.2021.256-263
Popis: TB is still a public health problem throughout the world where Indonesia is a country that has the third largest number of TB sufferers after India and China. Self-care by patients and families during the treatment process was the key to healing pulmonary TB. Using a quasi-experimental method, this study aims to improve the ability of self-care for pulmonary TB patients through intervention by “TB Mataho” health cadres. Most of the self-care capacity of pulmonary TB patients with pre-test results were sufficient, in the treatment group (75.2%) and the control group (62.5%). The post-test results for the treatment group were in the good category (53.1%) and the control group was in the sufficient category (59.4%). The results of the Paired Samples Test analysis in the treatment group obtained a value of p = 0.001 (p
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