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

• Main Authors: Muhtar Muhtar (Author), Aniharyati Aniharyati (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang, 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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• Notes: 2615-1669; 10.26714/mki.4.4.2021.256-263
• Keywords: tuberculosis; tuberculosis survivors; self-care capacity; health cadre; Nursing; RT1-120
• Source: Media Keperawatan Indonesia, Vol 4, Iss 4, Pp 256-263 (2021)

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 <0.05), which means that there was a significant difference in self-care capacity of pulmonary TB patients before and after treatment, as well as the results of the Independent Samples Test analysis, the p value was obtained. 0.030 (p <0.05) which means that there was a significant difference in the post-test results in the treatment group and the control group. Researchers recommend that pulmonary TB survivors who have a basic education of secondary and above can be trained to become health cadres and share their successful experiences with pulmonary TB patients who are still undergoing treatment programs.