Epidemiological and awareness study of tuberculosis in Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the serious infectious diseases and has been characterized worldwide as an epidemic by World Health Organization (WHO). TB is still a public health problem in Malaysia. Baseline information on the disease situation is one of the prerequisites for the developmen...
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2014
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| Summary: | Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the serious infectious diseases and has been
characterized worldwide as an epidemic by World Health Organization (WHO). TB
is still a public health problem in Malaysia. Baseline information on the disease
situation is one of the prerequisites for the development of appropriate control
measures. The cornerstone in proper management of TB patients is ensuring high
awareness in communities about TB. Thus the current research is directed to
investigate the epidemiology of TB, determined the level of public awareness of TB
and some factors that are responsible for the emergence of TB. Retrospective method
was used for collecting epidemiological data from the Batu Pahat chest clinic. All
registered TB patients (total of 1213 patients) from 2008 to 2013 in Batu Pahat Chest
Clinic were included in the study. On the other hand, the awareness study was
carried out by the use of questionnaires. A two-stage cluster sampling method was
used. 600 respondents were targeted which form the study sample. However, 498
questionnaires were returned. Descriptive data analysis was employed to describe the
results in frequency and percentage distribution. It was discovered that there was an
annually increase in TB incidence with pulmonary TB the most common infection in
Batu Pahat. Almost all (92.7%) the TB cases were new. On the other hand, majority
(87.0%) of respondents have heard about TB. Common symptoms identified by
respondents were coughing for over 2 weeks (51.8%), hemoptysis (49.2%) and
difficulty in breathing (50.2%). Smoking cigarette (74.3%), living with individual
having chronic cough (71.5%) and HIV/AIDS (65.7%) were the common risk factors
of TB identified by respondents. Most of the respondents (83.5%) were aware of the
existence of TB drugs. However, the standard DOTs treatment duration of 6-9
months was identified by few (12.4%) respondents. This research provided
information regarding TB status in Batu Pahat. The level of awareness among Batu
Pahat general public about TB is fairly good. Meanwhile, more need to be done
especially on diabetes as the risk factors of TB and treatment duration. |
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