The impact of training on the knowledge, skill, motivation, and intentions of health cadres in finding suspicious cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in the community

Pulmonary Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic and contagious disease that is still a major health problem in developing countries. There are still many cases of TB that go undiagnosed and go unreported. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of training by health workers on the Knowledge, Skills, Motivation, and Intentions of health cadres in detecting suspected cases of TB in the community. The research design is Quasi-Experimental with a one-group pretest-posttest design approach. The research data were analyzed statistically using the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test with a p value < 0.05. The results of the analysis obtained p values successively, namely, knowledge (0.004), skills (0.000), motivation (0.006), and intention (0.001). The conclusion is that training by health workers is proven to be able to increase the knowledge, skills, motivation, and intention of health cadres to carry out their role in finding suspected cases of TB in the community. It is hoped that the government and health workers will always increase the empowerment of health cadres in every TB treatment program in the community.