Social Stigma Circumstances toward Tuberculosis in Hilla City/Iraq: Community Insight Fadel Hadeel M.1,*, Jehad Salma K. J.1 1Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, University of Babylon, Hillah City, Iraq *Corresponding author: Hadeel M. Fadel. Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, University of Babylon, Hillah City, Iraq
Online published on 2 February, 2019. Abstract Tuberculosis is still a main public health problem in many developing countries. Objectives: are to identify the socio-demographic characteristics of the sample, to assess the social stigma circumstances of the disease throughout the insight of the community, and to fnd out the relationship between the sample sociodemographic data and the social stigma circumstances. A descriptive study was conducted on convenient random sample of 200 of both genders of the clients who visit the primary health care centers in Hilla city from the period (frst of October 2017 to frst of September 2018). The results of the present study have indicated that the overall assessment reveals that the majority of (61.5%) were positive social stigma towards patients with TB. The study concluded that there is a signifcant association between the social stigma and the sample demographic characteristic regarding age, educational level and occupation. Top Keywords Tuberculosis, Social Stigma, community insight. Top |