Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

The purpose of the study, known factors associated with treatment failure patients Tuberculosis in children. The method used is an observational design, cross-sectional study intended to determine the factors associated between the independent variables (independent) and dependent variable (dependent) with the identification of all the variables. Both of these variables can be seen at the time of execution simultaneously. The findings in this study found that low education, low knowledge and disobedience taking drugs is a factor that has a strong risk of treatment failure patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in children, while family support only protective factor (prevention) and not a risk factor for treatment failure patients with TB in children, The conclusion showed that the variables influencing the failure of treatment of TB patients is variable education and knowledge has a value of OR unchanged at 22.752 in CI 95% to the value of the lower limit (LL) = 1.032 and Upper limit (UL) = 501.786 with a significance level of 0.048 <0 05.