Development of Tuberculosis Care Model in community, Mueang District Mahasarakham Province.

Abstract

Objective : To study the Development of Tuberculosis Care Model in community, Mueang District Mahasarakham Province.

Methods : This is Action Research. New lung tuberculosis patients in Mueang Maha Sarakham District of 17 people and the  persons responsible for tuberculosis of 25, total 42 people . The research process  to 3 phases 1) Prepare for situation analysis 2) Conduct by using Kemmis & McTaggart concepts and Orem's self-care theory. 3) Assessment of studies between June 2018 - January 2019. The research instruments were patient interview of Knowledge questionnaire Semi-structural interview for health personnel and report form. Collect data using computer programs and HDC databases. Analyzed  data using descriptive statistics by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and content.

Results : Model development of 10 activities. After the development found that the TB patients has knowledge was high level from (82.35%  to 88.24 %). Self-care behavior from the previous (x ̅ = 2.02, S.D. = 0.188) of  medium level (x ̅ = 2.45, S.D. = 0.146) at high level. The person responsible  TB to knowledge of high level. Increased from 16 % to100 %. The results of the first home to visit in 7 days (from 45.76 % to 66.67 %). The regulatory drug data on TBCM online increased (from 41.1 % to 86.7 %). The results of the online to visit were 76.9% and the success rate of TB patients was 88.24 %.

Keywords : Tuberculosis care in community.