Correlation between Pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) Patient's Characteristics and Role of Supervisor of Drugs Swallowing (PMO) with the Risk of Transmission in Medan City 2017 Sarumpaet Sorimuda1, Syarifah2 1Department of Epidemiology, Sumatera Utara University, Jl. Universitas No.21, Medan, 20155, Indonesia 2Department of Health Education and Promotion, Faculty of Public Health, Sumatera Utara University, Jl. Universitas No.21, Medan, 20155, Indonesia Online published on 21 February, 2019. Abstract Pulmonary TB is leading infectious disease in Medan, Province of North Sumatra and the source is sputum of patients with smear-positive pulmonary TB. Indonesia is one of the six countries accounted for 60% of the new cases. By 2016 the estimated prevalence of TB in all cases in Indonesia is 660, 000. The Pulmonary TB case notification rate continues to increase from 2013 to 2015. In 2015 notification of pulmonary TB case is 117 per 100, 000 population. To eliminate the incidence, it's very important to terminate the pulmonary TB transmission from person with smear-positive. This research used cross-sectional design, population was all new patient with smear-positive who came to Health Centers in Medan City. Sample was taken purposively by using quota sampling which were all patients of Pulmonary TB from 4 health centers (Teladan, Pasar Merah, Helvetia, Johor) in 4 months and obtained 60 respondents. Using t-test and Mann-Whitney test, results showed that there was no correlation between patient characteristics (sex, age, education, occupation) with pulmonary TB transmission risk (p> 0.05). There was statistically significant correlation between the role of PMO with the risk of pulmonary TB (p<0.01). It is concluded that the role of PMO is very crucial to support the termination of pulmonary TB transmission, as an effort to eliminate pulmonary TB in Indonesia. Top Keywords Pulmonary TB, Characteristics, PMO, Risk of transmission, Health Center in Medan City. Top |