Korean J Prev Med.  1978 Oct;11(1):14-23.

A Survey on Health Status of Group Controlled Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients

• Jung KY

Abstract

This survey was conducted on a total 672 pulmonary tuberculosis patients who were registered at certain health center in Busan, during the period from July 15th to August 31st, 1977, based on Modified Cornell Medical Index(CMI) consisting of 70 questions. Number of "Yes" response of an individual patients was collected by each large section of Modified CMI. The each number of "Yes" response was standardized by mean of Z scoring. Z score was obtained by following formula. Z=50+10(Xi-m)/s. M : means of "Yes" response by each section for all subjects. s : standard deviation of the mean. Xi : number of "Yes" response by each section in an individual patients. The results of obtained were as follows: 1. The number of investigated cases were 672 (459 males and 213 females). The most prevalent group was 20-24 years old group as 18.4%by age, moderate advanced group as 50.8% by radiological diagnosis, INH+PAS+SM group as 34.7% by antituberculotics and unemployed group as 59.9% by occupation. By bacteriological examination of sputum, the rate of negative group was 60.5% and, positive group was 39.5%. 2. Z score of complaints by sex was higher in female as 52.4 than in male as 48.9 in general. By radiological diagnosis, there was decreasing tendency with age in male but increasing tendency with age in female. 3. By age group, Z score of complaints was increasing tendency with age in male but there was non-significant differences in female. 4. By bacteriological examination of sputum, the Z score of complaints was increasing tendency with the more discharged bacteria in both sex generally. 5. By antituberculotics, INH group was revealed the highest Z score of complaints as 50.4 in male and INH+PAS group was the highest as 51.2 in female. 6. By occupation, agricultural and fisherman group was the highest as 53.5 and the next group was professional, technical and related workers, unemployed and sales workers in that order.

MeSH Terms

Bacteria
Busan
Commerce
Diagnosis
Female
Humans
Male
Occupations
Sputum
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary*