The relationship between self care by quality of life of the patients pulmonary tuberculosis

Background: Pulmonary tuberculosis is a disease caused by Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. Pulmonary tuberculosis is a contagious disease that requires a long
treatment period of 6 months, so pulmonary tuberculosis patients need self-care such
as: adherence to medication, increasing nutritional intake, regulating sleep patterns,
physical exercise, prevention of transmission, and not smoking, which can have a
positive impact on improving the quality of life of TB patients.
Research: It is known that there is a relationship between self-care and the quality
of life of pulmonary tuberculosis patients.
Method: The method used in this research is quantitative with an analytical
survey. The population in this study were all patients diagnosed with pulmonary TB
at Charitas Hospital Kenten with a sampling technique using a total sampling of
30 respondents. The statistical test used is the Kendall-tau test α < 0.05. The
instruments in the research used a self-care questionnaire that had been tested for
validity and the WHOQoL-BREF 1-100 questionnaire.
Result: Univariate test results showed that the majority aged 19-59 years were
25 (83.3%), the majority were male 20 (66.7%), the majority had a high school
education 15 (50.0%), the majority had a history of suffering from pulmonary TB ≤
6 months 30 (100.0%), the majority of self-care for pulmonary TB patients was
adequate 16 (53.3%), and the majority of pulmonary TB patients' quality of life was
poor 13 (43.3%). The bivariate test results showed that there was a significant
relationship between self-care and the quality of life of pulmonary TB patients with
a value of p = 0.007 < 0.05. It was found that τ=0.450, which means that the
relationship closeness value has a sufficient level of correlation and the direction
of the relationship is positive.
Conclusion: There is a significant relationship between self-care and the quality of
life of TB patients at Charitas Hospital Kenten.
Recommendation: It is hoped that TB patients can adopt self-care behaviors to
improve their quality of life