Social acceptance among tuberculosis patients at Puskesmas Amplas Medan, Indonesia

1st International Conference on Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases (ICTROMI) Faculty of Medicine Universitas Sumatera Utara

Eyanoer, P.C.^1

Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Jl. DR.T. Mansur No. 5., Medan

20155, Indonesia^1

关键词: Bivariate analysis;    Correlation coefficient;    Cross-sectional study;    Indonesia;    P-values;    Social acceptance;    Social groups;    Tuberculosis patients;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/125/1/012101/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/125/1/012101

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Social acceptance is a confession, compilation, and appreciation for an individual which come from other individual or social groups in their entirety which makes individual feels safe, comfortable, and their existence is appreciated. A cross-sectional study consisted of 42 pulmonary TB patients registered at Puskesmas Amplas was done to analyze their social acceptance in the society. Data was collected by direct interview using structured questionnaire. The result showed that majority had either high and very high social acceptance with 45.20% and 31.0% respectively with high family support and high self-confidence (73.8%). Bivariate analysis showed a significant association between family support and self confidence with social acceptance (p value