The Nursing Home Care Module in Improving Self Care Agency of Patient with Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the City of Bima, West Nusa Tenggara

EasyChair Preprint 2252

Abstract

Background: Pulmonary TB disease suffered by individuals will have a very big impact on their lives, will physically cause complications such as the spread of infection to other organs, nutritional deficiencies, severe coughing up blood, resistance to many drugs, economically TB sufferers will lose annual income around 20-30%, in addition to other adverse effects are socially stigmatized and even ostracized by the community. Objective: this study was to analyze the effect of implementing the Nursing Home Care Module in improving self-care agency in pulmonary TB patients. Methods: a pre-experimental study with a one-group pretest-posttest design was used. Results: the self-care agency of pulmonary tuberculosis patients in the majority of the pre-test results was in enough category (50.0%) and only a few in the good category (15.6%). While the post-test results showed that most respondents were in enough category (65.6%) and the rest (34.4%) were in a good category. The paired t-test results showed the value of p = 0.001 (p <0.05), this indicates that the research hypothesis was accepted, which means that there is an influence of the application of the Nursing Home Care Module in improving self-care agency in patients with pulmonary TB. Conclusion: The ability of self-care agency for pulmonary tuberculosis patients who have increased include knowledge of pulmonary tuberculosis, treatment of TB symptoms, regulation of diet, prevention of transmission and adherence to treatment programs. Further research is suggested to be able to explore nursing interventions that can improve the self-care ability of patients with pulmonary TB.

Keyphrases: Nursing Home Care Module, Pulmonary TB, Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Self-Care Agency, bima city, home care module, self-care

@booklet{EasyChair:2252,
  author    = {Muhtar Muhtar and Aan Dwi Sentana},
  title     = {The Nursing Home Care Module in Improving Self Care Agency of Patient with Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the City of Bima, West Nusa Tenggara},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 2252},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2019}}