NURSE PERFORMANCE AND LEVEL OF FAMILY INDEPENDENCE BECOME A FACTOR RELATED TO TUBERCULOSIS PREVENTION EFFORTS IN GORONTALO, INDONESIA?

Abstract

Health development shifts by maximizing promotive and preventive efforts as a form of disease control. Nurse's performance and family independence are important factors in optimizing health services. One infectious disease that develops every year is pulmonary tuberculosis. In Gorontalo, Indonesia, this disease continues to increase so that the family needs an active role in controlling the transmission of tuberculosis. The purpose of this study was to find out the variables most associated with efforts to prevent pulmonary tuberculosis. This research is a cross sectional study and the sample is 155 members of the family with tuberculosis selected by purposive sampling. The results of the study showed OR value = 3,385 which means that the performance variables of good nurses have a chance / opportunity 3 times for prevention efforts of tuberculosis which is good compared to the performance of nurses who are not well controlled by family independence. The conclusion of this study is the importance of improving the performance of nurses of public health centers as health workers who meet directly with families both in terms of quality and capability. This has an impact on increasing family knowledge and skills in making efforts to prevent pulmonary tuberculosis in families, groups and communities.