Tubercolosis is the fifth death factor after Ischemic Heart Disease, stroke,
Respiratory Tract Infection, and Chronic Obstrcutive Lung Diseases. Indonesia is
the second biggest contributor of TB cases in the world. Its prevalence is 647
cases in 100,000 populatioon. According to the report of Health Office of Central
Java, Banyumas Regency is the third contributor of TB cases in the province.
This study has an objective to find out the effect of health education campaign
applying peer education method to the knowledge and behavior of TB patients in
a community health center of Kembaran II, Jatilawang and Wangon. This is an
experimental study employing a non-equivalent control group design with pretest
and post-test. The respondents of experimental group are 12 patients, and those of
control group treated with a lecturing method are 12. From the paired t-test, the
significance value of the knowledge among the experimental group by peer
education is 0.000 (p< 0.05) and that of control group is 0.45 (p > 0.05).
Meanwhile in terms of their behavior, the significance value of the experimental
group is 0.074 (p>0.05) and that of control group is 0.826 (p>0.05). From the
comparison of the knowledge between the two groups, using Mann-Whitney, it
obtained a significance value of 0.000 (p<0.05) and the comparison of their
behavior, using independent t-tets, it got a significance value of 0.004 (p< 0.05)
for the experimental group and 0.007 (p<0.05) for the control group. From the
statistical tests, it can be concluded that there is an increase of knowledge and an
improvement of the behavior among the TB patients about TB knowledge and the
prevention of its spredth after intervention. In addition, it is proved that peer
education influences their knowledge and behavior better than the lecturing
method.