Abstract
Background: Tuberculosis is a disease of poverty, mainly affecting young adults in their most productive years. The aim of this study was to identify the association of knowledge and attitude of Tuberculosis in Ethiopia and to study the relationship between TB and independent variables. The source of data is obtained from 2011 EDHS. During the analysis stage, SPSS version 23, Stata version 14 and Microsoft-Excel are used as tools of analysis. Out of 14,104 households, only 4.2% households did not heard about TB. In general education level, current marital status, region and wealth index are significant factor to association of knowledge and attitude of tuberculosis among patients in Ethiopia.
Highlights
Tuberculosis is a disease of poverty, mainly affecting young adults in their most productive years
The objectives of this study is to identify the determinants of knowledge and attitude of Tuberculosis in Ethiopia and to study the relationship between TB and independent variables
From the table 1 shows that 31 households from Tigray region don’t have heard about tuberculosis but 1353 households have heard about tuberculosis
Summary
Tuberculosis is a disease of poverty, mainly affecting young adults in their most productive years. For the first time in many years, recent World Health Organization data suggest that the absolute number of TB cases has been falling since 2006. Despite this achievement, TB continues to be one of the top causes of death among women ages 15-44, and in 2009 almost 10 million children were orphaned as a result of parental deaths caused by TB. Tuberculosis is a global public health priority, with 10.4 million people developing the disease in 2016 (10% among HIV co-infected individuals), 1.67 million deaths and 490,000 multidrug-resistant plus an additional 110000 rifampicin-resistant cases [1]. Current marital status, region and wealth index are significant factor to association of knowledge and attitude of tuberculosis among patients in Ethiopia
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