Prevalence and associated factor for positive chest x-ray during tuberculosis screening among high risk groups in Kedah

Tuberculosis screening program among high risk groups using chest xray have been implemented by Ministry of health Malaysia but the case detection are not encouraging. More prioritization is needed to identify factors that contribute to a chest x-ray screening positive so that the positive cases would not be missed and may help in halting the chain of transmission of TB in the society. This was a cross sectional study involving patients who were screened during TB screening for high risk groups in Kedah in 2016. The patients involved were from the list that has been included in the TB information system (TBIS) 104 A which is a notification system for this screening. The study involved 1417 people involving facilities which were randomly selected from six regions that were also selected randomly. Data analysis was conducted using SPSS version 22 for descriptive and inferential analysis. Simple logistic regression analysis and multiple logistic analysis was used to identify factors associated with chest x-ray result at p-value of