Pustaka Ilmiah Universitas Padjadjaran

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Developing the Instrumen for Assessing Psychosocial Needs of Clients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis Short running title : Psychosocial Needs of Clients with TB

A wide variety of programs that focus on the treatment and prevention of Pulmonary Tuberculosis has been applied by the government to overcome the problem in Indonesia. However, none of the programs are developed to address the psychosocial problmes of clients with Tb. This research is part of our major study entitle psychosocial needs analysis of clients with TB. The aimed of this study was to developed an instrumen to assess the psychososcial need of clients with TB. The development of this instrumen was inspired by Psychosocial Needs Inventory for cancer. This instrument was developed by the research team based on the inventory, interviews with 5 people with TB and recommendation from 3 expert panel and also refers to some of the articles from the Journal. Content and construct validity was conducted as well as reliability testting (n = 40). This study found 35 item to assess the psychosocial need of clients with TB. This instrumen has good psychometric including high internal consistency (alpha averaging ..981) Validity has been established for content and construct validity. Reliability after testing was high ( r > 0,7). It was concluded that this psychosocial assessment instruments can be used to assess the psychosocial needs of clients with TB. This instrumen need to be tested in a bigger sample and in another place to increase the reliability of it.