HUBUNGAN PENGETAHUAN PENDERITA TUBERKULOSIS PARU TERHADAP KEPATUHAN PENGGUNAAN OBAT ANTI TUBERKULOSIS (OAT) DI PUSKESMAS KECAMATAN SUKUN KOTA MALANG

Background: At this time, Pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) became infectious diseases that cause death in Indonesian. High rates of tuberculosis (TB) in the world, especially in Indonesian caused by inadherence to treatment programs although inadequate treatment. The knowledge about Tuberculosis disease is expected can increasing the patients’ adherence in therapy, so that the risk of resistance and other complications can be avoided early on. Purpose: To find out the relationship between knowledge of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis to the adherence in use of anti-tuberculosis drugs (OAT) at Public Health Sukun Distric, Malang. Research Method.:This research uses observational method type Cross Sectional analysis. Sampling technique using purposive sampling with a sample of 60 patients who get and use OAT at Public Health Sukun Distric, Malang. Analysis of data using the Spearman Test with a significance value (α) 0.050. Results & Conclusions: the study result of 60 patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis who had good knowledge of 61.7% (37 people), Sufficient knowledge of 21.7% (13 people) and less knowledge of 16.6% (10 people). Whereas sufferens of high adherence were 73.3% (44 people) and moderate adherence was 26.7% (16 people). Spearman test results obtained by the correlation coefficient of 0.336 and a significance value of 0.008 (p-value < (α) 0.050), showed that there was a significant relationship between knowledge of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis to the adherence in use of anti-tuberculosis drugs (OAT) at Public Health Sukun Distric, Malang