Background
infection, deaths, PTB
INFECTION, DISEASE, PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS, TUBERCULOSIS (TB)
In 2021, 10.6 million people fell ill with Tuberculosis (TB) worldwide, with 1.6 million deaths from the disease [Health-related Quality of Life (HRQoL) is defined as “the extent to which patient’s subjective perception of physical, mental and social wellbeing are affected on a day to day basis by a disease and its treatment [In order to improve PTB patients’ quality of life, it is very important to ensure that they adhere and complete their treatment. Adherence to medication is the leading key to successful outcome of the disease management, as well as to break the chain of the infection transmission [Pulmonary tuberculosis is a social disease; it affects the patients, as well as the people surrounding them. A successful treatment includes good social support systems a PTB patient should receives from the surrounding people [To the best of the researcher’s knowledge, no available study has explored family support health education interventions to improve the quality of life of PTB patients in Melaka. Therefore, based on the hypothesis that comprehensive family support health education interventions might improve the quality of life of PTB patients, this study proposes a newly developed intervention, a Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the 