Attitude, Smoking Behavior, and Physical Activities Toward Diabetes Mellitus–Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Abstract

Background: Every year an average of 9 million people suffer from Tuberculosis and about 2 million people die every year in the world. The Behavior Area is divided into attitudes and actions. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between attitude, smoking behavior, physical activity and the incidence of Diabetes Mellitus–pulmonary Tuberculosis. Method: This study was an observational analytic study using a case control matching design. The research sample is 30 case samples and 30 control samples. Results: From the results of the Chi Square analysis, it is known that there is a significant relationship that is the attitude towards pulmonary Tuberculosis disease and physical activity towards pulmonary Tuberculosis (p0.05) between smoking behavior towards Pulmonary of Diabetes Mellitus–pulmonary Tuberculosis. Odds Ratio of this study is the attitude towards pulmonary Tuberculosis disease of 3.455 and physical activity of 9.036. Conclusion: the attitude of patients with Diabetus Mellitus towards Pulmonary Tuberculosis and physical activity of patients with Diabetus Mellitus risked the incidence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

Keywords

• smoking, pulmonary tb, diabetes mellitus