Factors Affecting Life Quality of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Sufferers at Sanglah Hospital Denpasar

Abstract

Pulmonary tuberculosis is a chronic disease that still becomes the world's health problem including in Indonesia. WHO states that TB has been considered as a global threat. It is estimated that approximately 1, 9 billions of people or one third of the world population is infected by this disease. Every year, there are about 9 millions new sufferers of TB with about 3 millions mortality. In developing countries, mortality occurs in around 25% of all cases. In fact, it can be avoided by the finding of germs causing TB. The objective of this research is to determine the relationship among social support and life quality of pulmonary TB sufferers, characteristics of pulmonary TB sufferers, magnitude of social support, and level of life quality of pulmonary TB sufferers having treatment at Center for Pulmonary Disease Eradication and Prevention (BP4) of Sanglah of Denpasar and magnitude of contributions of respondent characteristics on life quality of pulmonary TB sufferers. There is a meaningful relationship between social support and life quality of pulmonary TB sufferers. The higher the social support, the better the life quality will be. Age and education variables provide meaningful contributions on life quality. Other variable, namely sex, occupation, and history of treatment do not provide contributions on life quality of pulmonary TB sufferers.