TB-burdened countries like Indonesia require both
good quality of health care services and community
involvement. Some considerable challenges,
such as delayed care seeking and poor treatment
compliance,6,7 are resulted from limited community
involvement in TB control program. TB programs
within community are important to reduce risk
infection and decline TB incidence in community.
Program should modify some factors such as
poor knowledge of TB6,8 and stigmatization7 in
community which lead to delayed seeking care8,9 and
poor adherence to treatment. Otherwise, increasing
number of delayed treatment, high number of
untreated cases, low cure rate, increasing number of
mortality, wide spread in population, and increasing
number of TB multi-drugs resistances (MDR)
remain unresolved.10 Therefore, recognizing sociodemographic
determinants of TB knowledge and
perception in community is required.