The Effect of Health Education on Knowledge and Behavioral Implications of Adherence to Taking Anti-tuberculosis Drugs (OAT)

Abstract

Pulmonary tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis and is the most common infection worldwide. This study aims to analyze the effect of health education on knowledge and its implications on the behavior of adherence to taking anti-tuberculosis drugs. The study used a quasi-experimental research design with a pretest and posttest non-equivalent control group approach. Based on statistical tests, it is known that there is a difference in the effect of health education on knowledge between the intervention group and the control group with a value of (p=0.083 (<0.10). There is a difference in the effect of health education on adherence to taking OAT between the intervention group and the control group with a value of (pvalue=0.000; <0.5). The overall test of the statistical fit model shows that the independent variables (intervention, age, gender, occupation, and education) simultaneously provide good accuracy to predict changes in knowledge after intervention of 12.466 with (pvalue=0.029; <0.10), while the OAT compliance variable can simultaneously provide good accuracy to predict changes in OAT compliance after intervention of 16.774 with (pvalue=0.001; <0.05).