CROSS SECTIONAL COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AWARENESS OF TUBERCULOSIS AMONG URBAN AND RURAL SLUM POPULATION

Dr. Subodh Kanchi; Dr. Padmaja Kanchi

Volume : VIII, Issue : VII, July - 2019

CROSS SECTIONAL COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AWARENESS OF TUBERCULOSIS AMONG URBAN AND RURAL SLUM POPULATION

Dr. Subodh Kanchi, Dr. Padmaja Kanchi

Abstract :

The cross sectional comparative study was aimed at assessing the awareness of population from urban and rural locality. AIM:- To Study Awareness of Tuberculosis among the urban and rural population in Navi Mumbai. OBJECTIVES:-1 To compare the level of awareness about knowledge of disease amongst urban and rural population. 2 To compare level of awareness about completion of full course about TB treatment, types of tuberculosis, spread of disease etc among urban and rural population. Total of 200 patients from Urban and Rural area were included. Regarding spread of TB through droplet; awareness was more in urban population than in rural by 14.66%. Our study showed that a 57.14 % of rural and 42.86 % of urban population were aware of extra pulmonary involvement in TB. 59.57% of the rural population & 54.46% of urban population has perception that the treatment should continue for 9 months and 6 months respectively.