1Associate Professor, Politeknik Kesehatan Kementrian Kesehatan, Semarang, Indonesia
2Assistant Professor, Politeknik Kesehatan Kementrian Kesehatan, Semarang, Indonesia
3Deputy to Chairman, STIA & Manajemen Kepelabuhan Barunawati, Surabaya, Indonesia
*Corresponding author: M. Choiroel Anwar Associate Professor, Politeknik Kesehatan Kementrian Kesehatan, Semarang, Indonesia
Online published on 30 August, 2018.
Factors affecting the incidence of TB to children is very complex and a networking involving multicausal factors. The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of TB in children who live at home with smear-positive patients later developed a causal model of TB transmission networks and determine the causal relationship between risk factors.
This type of research is observational with cross sectional design. The population is children aged less than 15 years old who live with smear positive pulmonary TB patients. The number of samples were 195 children. Data was analysed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).
There is a significant effect of socio-economic to the housing conditions of the respondents, home environment, and the behavior of respondents. There is a significant effect of potential infectious smear positive patients, respondent behavior, condition of child home environment, children vulnerably, social economy on the incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis of children.
The implication of this research is TB eradication should not only merely focus on the individual factors of patient but it should cover all dimension of multi causal transmission network.
Network, children, tuberculosis, Structural Equation Modelling
