A Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge Regarding Tuberculosis and its Prevention Among the Population in Chaubepur Community, Kanpur

Abstract

TB is spread from person to person through the air. When people with lung TB cough, sneeze or spit, they propel the TB germs into the air. A person needs to inhale only a few of these germs to become infected. About one-quarter of the world's population has latent TB, which means people have been infected by TB bacteria but are not (yet) ill with the disease and cannot transmit the disease. People infected with TB bacteria have a 5–15% lifetime risk of falling ill with TB. Non experimental research approach was considered to be appropriate for the present study as it aimed to assessed the knowledge regarding tuberculosis and its prevention among population in Chaubepur, Kanpur. The samples were population in the Chaubepur, Kanpur. The sample consist of 60 people who fulfill the criteria for sample selection and who were available at the Chaubepur community at time of data collection. Written consent was taken from the people who were selected as sample. Self- structured knowledge questionnaire containing 30 questions and checklist containing 10 questions was used to evaluate the knowledge and practice of people regarding prevention of tuberculosis The findings revealed that the overall mean knowledge score of people regarding prevention of tuberculosis was 303 and overall practice mean score was 33. The study contains with P value is 0.000067, and its significant level is 0.05. The study is also showed that there is an association between knowledge and practice of peoples with selected demographic variables like age, sex, education, occupation, marital status, family income, type of house and people’s concept about tuberculosis except for the type of family which is not significant.