Factors Related to the Health Care Behaviors Among Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patient in the office of Public Health, Khon Kaen Province Area

Abstract

          This survey research was aimed to study factors related to the health care behaviors among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in the public health services, Khon Kaen Province Area. It was conducted in 172 new pulmonary sputum smear positive cases who registered between 1 January and 30 June 2009 for treatment in public health services, Khon Kaen Province. Data were collected by each network service (CUP) and sampling by systematic type circular sampling method. The data collection using 1) an assessment of tuberculosis clinic service system and 2) factors related to the health care behav-iors questionnaire. The overall questionnaire reliability was 0.75. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, including frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, minimum, maximum and inferential statistics using the Eta and Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The findings were summa-rized as follows:

          Analysis of the factors that related with treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis patients found that gender, marital status and knowl-edge of pulmonary tuberculosis, the service convenience and the appropriate of tablets number taken each time were related with behavioral treatment of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, statisti-cally significant (p-value <0.05). No added factor is associated with behavioral treatment of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.