Korean J Health Promot KJHP Korean Journal of Health Promotion 2234-2141 2093-5676 Korean Society for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention 10.15384/kjhp.2018.18.2.83 Original Article The Knowledge, Attitudes on Tuberculosis for the Foreign Students of a Domestic University Park Young-Su 1 Yoo Byung-Wook 2 Department of Nursing, College of Nursing, Catholic University of Pusan, Busan, Korea. Department of Family Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea. Corresponding author: Byung-Wook Yoo, MD, PhD. Department of Family Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Hospital, 59 Daesagwan-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul 04401, Korea. Tel: +82-2-709-9158, Fax: +82-2-709-9133, dryoo@schmc.ac.kr 06 2018 30 06 2018 18 2 83 89 30 03 2018 19 06 2018 Copyright © 2018 Korean Society for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention 2018 Korean Society for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Background

The purpose of this study was identified the level of knowledge, attitudes on tuberculosis for the foreign students of a domestic university, to develop an prevention educational program designed to improve the level of knowledge, attitudes on tuberculosis.

 Methods

This study used a descriptive design in the foreign students of Soonchunhyang University. The participants were 118 foreign students, measurements included a socio-demographic and knowledge, attitudes on tuberculosis. Data were collected from November to December, 2016, with a self-reported questionnaire. The statistical analyses were performed with SPSS version 24.0 software (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL, USA).

 Results

The mean scores of knowledge, attitudes on tuberculosis for the foreign students were 16.05 (±4.52), 3.20 (±0.38). The knowledge on tuberculosis for foreign students was significantly different in country (F=11.76, P<0.001), fatigue (t=2.40, P=0.018), smoking (t=2.45, P=0.016). The attitudes on tuberculosis for foreign students was significantly different in country (F=9.94, P<0.001), fatigue (t=2.25, P=0.026). In the correlation analysis, the knowledge (r=0.760) positively correlated with the attitudes on tuberculosis for the foreign students (P<0.001).

 Conclusions

These finding indicate that development of educational programs to improve the level of knowledge, attitudes on tuberculosis for the foreign students. Also, future research needed to development the tuberculosis prevention educational programs.

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Abbreviation: TB, tuberculosis.

Values are presented as number (%).

 The level of knowledge of tuberculosis (n=118)

Abbreviations: TB, tuberculosis; B.C.G, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin; PPD, purified protein derivative.

 The level of attitudes on tuberculosis (n=118)

Abbreviations: TB, tuberculosis; PPD, purified protein derivative.

Values are presented as mean±standard deviation.

 Difference of knowledge, attitudes on tuberculosis according to subjects' characteristics (n=118)

Abbreviations: M, mean; SD, standard deviation; TB, tuberculosis.

a–cScheffe test.

 Correlation among knowledge, attitudes on tuberculosis (n=118)