The Behavior of Adolescent Mosque toward Earlier Introduction Tuberculosis Diseases in Kekait VillageWest Lombok

Background: Tuberculosis incidence rate is still quite high in Indonesia. Behavioral knowledge, attitudes, and skills of mosque adolescent about early recognition of tuberculosis disease is very important to know in order to be able to support government programs in prevention of transmission and increase the findings of new suspects in the community. The purpose of this research is to know the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of an adolescent mosque in the early introduction of tuberculosis disease.

Method: The type of research used was descriptive with the Household Survey approach of all adolescent mosques with a total sample of 40 people with sampling using the Purposive Sampling method. Data collection is done using a questionnaire that has been tested by validity and reliability and the data obtained are presented in the form of a frequency distribution table. While the data analysis used in this study is univariate analysis.

Results: An overview of the knowledge of adolescent mosques about the introduction of Tuberculosis is still lacking as many as 16 respondents (40.0%). While the attitudes of adolescent mosques about the early introduction of tuberculosis are sufficient, namely as many as 17 respondents (53%). Awareness of respondents who are still minimal also influences adolescent behavior in recognizing various health problems, one of which is tuberculosis.

Conclusion: The lack of knowledge and attitudes of adolescent mosques in the early introduction of tuberculosis has an impact on skills in recognizing the signs and symptoms of tuberculosis.