Assessment Of College Student’s Awareness About Tuberculosis In U.P. (India)

Abstract

Tuberculosis is an infectious communicable disease caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis and easily spread through droplets. According to WHO 2022 report approx. 10.6 million people across the world were diagnose with tuberculosis, 4.5% increased from 2020, while 1.6 million people died due to this disease. India accounting 2/3rd (68.3%) of total TB count. Tuberculosis is preventable and curable disease. TB stands as major community health problem due to ignorance, unawareness, lack of knowledge of people.¹

So it is a primary responsibility of health workers to develop awareness about prevention, care and treatment of TB among community. This survey is based on assessing the awareness of TB among undergraduate students and postgraduate students of nonmedical stream in selected colleges in U.P. In present study total number of students participated in study were 530 students out of that 290 (54.71%) male and 240 (45.28%) were female. Study represents that male student’s had higher awareness than female students. They had moderate knowledge about general awareness of TB, its symptoms, mode of transmission but very poor knowledge about treatment and diagnosis part of TB. Health workers should realize their role in health education programs in the community to improve the public awareness about the health burden diseases like tuberculosis.