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Ann Med Res. 2008; 15(4): 249-255


The Relation of Tuberculosis to Life Events and its Perception

Demet Ünalan*, Mustafa Baştürk**, Osman Ceyhan***

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Abstract


Objective: The aim of this study is to search the relation of TB with life events and its perception.

Materials-Methods: The study was conducted on 196 cares with active TB who applied to Dispensary of counteractig TB within 1-year. As a method to gather data in this study, the method of questionnaire was used. The questionaire consisted of two parts. The first part included defining information such as age, marital status, education level, social insurance and the second part included questions about the reactions of the cases to this disease, their ideas about the disease, the stressor they experienced, and questions which aimed at determining the effects of the disease on the patients and their relations with their environment. In statistical analysis, percentage and frequency calculations were made and qui-square was used.

Results: The attitude of the cases to the disease was as follows: 75.5% showed acceptance, 43.4% experienced sadness and 28.6% experienced anxiety, pessimism anger. 56.3% of the first-time cases, 62.5% of the relapsed cases, 75.0% of the cases who had an interval during treatment had more than one stressor. It was seen that TB had nagative effects on individuals causing sleep-appetite problems (57.0%) and making them more introvert (40.3%), and it also effected the patients’ relations with their environment causing problems such as isolation (10.7%) and being labelled (16.3%).

Conclusions: Most of the cases are seen to have accepted the disease and they regard it as a curable disease. It has been seen that the disease leads to sleep-appetite problems for more than half of the cases, it causes isolation for 10.7% and labelling in 16.3%

Key Words: Tuberculosis, Stressor, Life Events, Perception.






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