Dumpeti Sreeharshika, Jothula Kishore Yadav, Naidu Navya K
Department of Forensic Medicine, ESIC Medical College, Sanath Nagar, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Department of Community and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bibinagar, Yadadri Bhuvanagiri District, Telangana, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2020 Jul 30;9(7):3281-3287. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_415_20. eCollection 2020 Jul.
Tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease caused by discovered in ancient centuries still remains a major public health problem in India. Lack of awareness about the cause, risk factors, treatment and prevention of TB among rural people is a major challenge to be addressed to reduce disease transmission.
To assess the knowledge of TB among rural people. To assess the awareness about RNTCP services.
Cross-sectional study was conducted in six randomly selected villages attached to a medical college.
Houses were selected by systematic random sampling method and younger person was identified as study subject. Data were collected from a sample of 300 by predesigned pretested semi-structured questionnaire.
Data were presented in proportions with confidence interval and Chi-square test was applied to find the association between variables by using SPSS ver. 23.
The study showed that 79.6% knew that the cause of TB is bacteria. Majority of the participants 93.6% (95% CI: 90.3, 96.1) knew that TB primarily affects lungs. Subjects were aware of free diagnostic services (85.3%), free treatment services (89%) available in the govt setup.
Although the awareness of symptoms, causative agent, mode of spread was reasonably good, knowledge on availability of DOTS centres, services offered through RNTCP is still poor among rural population.
结核病是一种由[具体病因未提及]引起的传染病，在古代就已被发现，如今在印度仍然是一个主要的公共卫生问题。农村居民对结核病的病因、危险因素、治疗和预防缺乏认识，是减少疾病传播需要应对的一项重大挑战。
评估农村居民对结核病的了解程度。评估对国家结核病控制规划（RNTCP）服务的知晓情况。
在一所医学院附属的六个随机选取的村庄中进行横断面研究。
采用系统随机抽样方法选择房屋，并将年轻人确定为研究对象。通过预先设计并经过预测试的半结构化问卷，从300名样本中收集数据。
数据以比例和置信区间呈现，并使用SPSS 23版应用卡方检验来找出变量之间的关联。
研究表明，79.6%的人知道结核病的病因是细菌。大多数参与者（93.6%，95%置信区间：90.3，96.1）知道结核病主要影响肺部。受试者了解政府机构提供的免费诊断服务（85.3%）和免费治疗服务（89%）。
尽管对症状、病原体、传播方式的认识相当不错，但农村人口对直接观察短程治疗（DOTS）中心的可及性以及通过国家结核病控制规划提供的服务的了解仍然很差。
