Factors Related to the Incidence of Tuberculosis in Garuda Health Center Bandung, West Java Province, Indonesia

Background: Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that hasinfected nearly a third of the world’s population. Puskesmas Garuda is the Puskesmas with the highestnumber of tuberculosis cases in the city of Bandung. Efforts have been made, but have not been able toovercome the incidence of tuberculosis..Objectives: This study aims to look at the influence of knowledge, nutritional status and smokinghabits on the incidence of tuberculosis..Methods: The method in this study is a quantitative method with Cross Sectional design. The populationin this study was patients who visited and registered in the patient register at Garuda Health Center.A sample of 95 respondents was taken using a large sampling technique of varying proportions. Thesampling technique in this study is using simple sandom sampling techniques. The statistical test usedis the chi square test.Results: Variables that have been shown to affect the incidence of tuberculosis are knowledge (p=0.018),nutritional status (p=0.012), and smoking (p=0.000). (p=0,000).Conclusion: The prevalence of tuberculosis is 41.1%. Factors of the risk of tuberculosis are knowledge,nutritional status and numbness of smoking. People who are knowledgeable about tuberculosis. It isrecommended that health workers are advised to increase preventive and promotive efforts throughcounseling about the risk factors of tuberculosis incidence to the public to increase public knowledgein order to reduce the risk of tuberculosis infection.