The Relationship between Education and Knowledge Levels on Adherence to Taking AntiTuberculosis Drugs in TB Patients at Beringin Raya Health Center

Riska Oktalina

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) is the 13th leading cause of death in the world. Indonesia has the second highest number of TB patients in the world after India, followed by China, the Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the level of education and knowledge of adherence to taking anti-tuberculosis drugs (OAT) in TB patients. This study used a cross sectional approach method, sampling using the calculation of the lemeshlow formula with purposive sampling technique. The results of this study showed that the level of education obtained by most patients with high school education, there were 41 (64.1%) patients who were obedient in taking OAT, compared to the level of education who did not graduate from elementary school, elementary school, junior high school, college. Based on the chi-square test analysis, the p-value was 0.602. The results of the study on knowledge of OAT compliance in TB patients showed that most patients who had good knowledge as many as 47 (92.2%) patients were compliant in taking OAT, and there were 4 (7.8%) patients who had good knowledge but did not comply with taking OAT while there were 9 (23.3%) patients whose knowledge was less compliant with taking OAT and there were 33 (78.6%) patients with less knowledge who were not compliant in taking OAT. Based on the chi-square test analysis, the p-value is 0.000 (p<0.05). So it can be concluded that there is a relationship between knowledge and compliance with taking anti-tuberculosis drugs in TB patients and there is no relationship between education level and compliance with taking anti-tuberculosis drugs in TB patient