Knowledge and Awareness towards Tuberculosis Infection among new Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients at Selected Hospitals of Chattogram City Corporation Area, Bangladesh.

Knowledge and Awareness towards Tuberculosis Infection among new Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients at Selected Hospitals of Chattogram City Corporation Area, Bangladesh.

Author Md. Jahedul Islam
Co-Author Piplu Barua, Mohammad Noim Uddin, Md. Mujibur Rahman, Kazi Md. Abir Aman, Aklima Akter, Joynab Begum, Tamanna Jannat, Farhana Adnin
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Country : Bangladesh
Subject : Public Health

Keywords : TB, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Infection, Pulmonary.

Abstract

TB is one of the top 10 leading causes of death from a single infectious agent; a total of 1.5 million people died from TB in 2018 including 251000 people with HIV infection. It is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria and generally affects the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body. The main objective of the study is determination of knowledge and awareness towards Tuberculosis (TB) infection among different TB patients of selected Hospitals, Chattogram District, Bangladesh. The sample size of the study was 250. From the findings of the study, it could be said that the respondents should know about TB more as still a big portion of the respondents did not know about TB properly. Even they did not know about the causative agent of TB and were not aware about its transmission, causative agent and diagnosis. Thus, the present study emphasizes the need for health education programmes to improve knowledge, awareness and removing misconceptions about TB.

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