Pengaruh Pendidikan Kesehatan dengan Metode Diskusi Kelompok dan Demonstrasi terhadap Pengetahuan, Sikap dan Perilaku Keluarga dalam Menemukan Tersangka Penderita Tuberkulosis Paru: The Influence of Health Education with

A study of WHO showed that tuberculosis (TB) epidemic in Asia nowadays reached up to 4, 5 million cases, which is more than half of TB cases in the world. In Indonesia, generally, and in the province of North Sumatera, especially, one of the crucial problems in the TB control program is the low case finding. Therefore, conunmities\u27 empowerments through health education need to be implemented in order them to be willing and able to find the TB suspected case. The general objective of this research was aimed to increase the case finding of TB in North Sumatera with TB patients\u27 family empowerment through health education. The specific objective of this research was to find out the influence of health education that used methods of group discussion and demonstration toward knowledge, attitude and behavior of TB patients\u27 family in order to find out the TB suspected case in the community. This was a quasi experimental research with pretest and posttest design that used external control group. The sample was taken with total population from the population of TB patient\u27s family. Through random assignment, sample was classified into two treatment groups that was group of health education that used methods of group discussion and demonstration, as well as group of health education that used group discussion method. There was no significant difference between mean value of knowledge, attitude and behavior of both groups in the pretest. There was an increasing of mean value of knowledge, attitude and behavior of both groups in posttest 1 although there was no significant difference between both of the groups. There was an increasing of the mean value of knowledge and behavior in posttest 2 although there was no significant difference between both of the groups. Indeed, there was no significant increasing of the mean value of attitude in both of the groups from posttest 1 to posttest 2. It was concluded that the health education that used methods of group discussion and demonstration, whether it was used respectively or combined could improve knowledge, attitude and behavior of TB patient\u27s family in finding the TB suspected case, and there was no difference between the two ways of methods utilization in influencing knowledge, attitude and behavior of TB patient\u27s family in finding the TB suspected case. Keywords: tuberculosis âhealth education âfamil