Background: Malnutrition and Tuberculosis are serious problem in Indonesia. Patients being at risk of malnutrition are commonly found when entering hospitals. Patients that diagnosed with Tuberculosis and malnutrition had a greater risk of experiencing worse manifestations, treatment side effects, and death. Furthermore, this can increase mortality, morbidity, length of stay in the hospital, and treatment cost. Therefore screening tool is needed to help assessing the risk of patient getting malnourished from the beginning easily and quickly. One of the screening tools is Malnutrition Screening Tools (MST). This study aims to determine the comparison between MST scores and malnutrition condition based on objective examination.
Method: This research used comparison, retrospective, and cross-sectional design using the data from medical record of 96 Tuberculosis’s hospitalized patient at Atma Jaya Hospital. Data from MST, Body Mass Index (BMI), and Total Lymphocyte Count (TLC) were collected to be analyzed using 2x2 table with McNemar calculation to find the p value. Data were analyzed using SPSS 24.0
Result: In this research the proportion of men (56.3%) is larger then women (43.8%). From the analyzed data were found the comparison between MST and BMI (p=0,04), TLC (p=0,049).
Conclusions: From this research, it is found a significant comparison between MST scores and malnutrition condition based on BMI and TLC. |