International Journal of Psychiatric Nursing

Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is one of the stressor that causes anxiety and depression related to disease, the treatment process, drugs consumed and side effects that caused by it, thus it affects the life quality of sufferers. The purpose of this study was to analyze self-esteem factors related to the incidence of anxiety and depression in MDR-TB patients.

This study was observational analytic with cross sectional approach. The population in this study was patients with MDR-TB who was undergoing treatment process with a total sample of 71 people obtained through purposive sampling technique. Data collection technique was conducted through questionnaires. Data were analyzed using univariate and bivariate analysis.

The results of bivariate analysis used Chi-square test that showed a significant correlation between self-esteem with the incidence of anxiety in patients with MDR-TB, with p value of p=0.005 with an OR of 4. There was a significant correlation between self-esteem with the incidence of depression in patients with MDR-TB, with the p value of p=0.000 and OR of 26 There was a correlation between self-esteem with the incidence of anxiety and depression in patients with MDR-TB who were undergoing treatment process.

The suggestion for health worker in order to be able to control these factors was by conducting intervention in the form of health education and motivation to improve self-esteem in patients with MDR-TB.