Assessment of environmental risk factors between different households in longhouses with incidence of smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis in Tatau district year 2015-2019

Pulmonary tuberculosis is infectious disease caused by bacteria that grows in a certain condition of environment. Physical conditions of a house that determine the quality of a house can become the environmental risk factors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth inside the house. The aim for this study is to determine the relationship between environmental factors of longhouse quality and incidence of smear positive pulmonary TB in the district of Tatau in 2015 until 2019. A total of 44 longhouses were chosen and a total of 88 units or bilik or households selected to conduct the environmental observation and measurement. A self-administered questionnaire survey will be distributed to 205 respondents from the 44 longhouses in which 4 or 5 individuals from each longhouse selected for the survey. Data analysis is done using statistical tests, the association will be proven significant to each other if the p value is <0.05.