Utilization of Cultural Social Potential in Tuberculosis Efforts

The main problem in overcoming tuberculosis (TB) is the low coverage of TB cases in various regions. In the province of West Sumatra the discovery of TB cases only reached 63.97%. While in the District of Fifty Cities only reached 35.2%. This study aims to identify socio-cultural problems associated with the low coverage of tuberculosis findings in fifty-fifty districts, identify local cultural potentials that can encourage efforts to increase the scope of tuberculosis findings, and formulate an appropriate intervention model to increase the scope of tuberculosis findings. The study was conducted using qualitative-descriptive methods. The results showed a variety of socio-cultural factors that led to the low coverage of pulmonary TB case finding in the fifty cities, namely the existence of shame for some patients to go to health services / health centers, a negative perception of tuberculosis, belief in tuberculosis as a hereditary disease. While the socio-cultural potential that has been identified are; the increasing knowledge of tuberculosis, the existence of institutional support, actively performing cultural arts performances. Based on these problems and potentials, an intervention model was formulated to increase the scope of the discovery of tuberculosis by utilizing cultural arts performances, especially randai.