Abstract

Social acceptance is a confession, compilation, and appreciation for an individual which come from other individual or social groups in their entirety which makes individual feels safe, comfortable, and their existence is appreciated. A cross-sectional study consisted of 42 pulmonary TB patients registered at Puskesmas Amplas was done to analyze their social acceptance in the society. Data was collected by direct interview using structured questionnaire. The result showed that majority had either high and very high social acceptance with 45.20% and 31.0% respectively with high family support and high self-confidence (73.8%). Bivariate analysis showed a significant association between family support and self confidence with social acceptance (p value<0.05). The correlation coefficient (r) of self confidenceis 0.629 while family support were is 0.455 (p-value<0.05). This study concludes that both family support and self-confidence have a significant correlation with social acceptance.

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