HUBUNGAN GEJALA KLINIS PADA PEROKOK DENGAN GAMBARAN LESI FOTO THORAX

Based on the research done by health ministry, Indonesia is the fifth highest cigarette consumer in the world. In fact, the chemical substances in cigarette can cause cough, dyspnea, chest pain, tachicardic, and also bloody cough. Those clinical symptoms can be classified into 3, namely mild clinical symptom (cough), moderate clinical symptom (chronic cough and/or dyspnea), and several clinical symptom (chest pain, tachicardic and/or bloody cough). From the respondents’ Rontgen photos with mild, moderate, and severe clinical symptoms, it will be seen the positive and negative lesion image of thorax photos. The research design is analytic observations with Cross-Sectional approach method. This research was conducted in the village of Nepi, Kranggan, Galur, Kulonprogo. The research subjectsare 75 people(25 people have mild clinical symptoms, 25 have moderate clinical symptoms and 25 people have severe clinical symptoms). The technic of sample selection is quota sampling method and the whole subjects that meet the criteria specified as samples.The Data obtained were analyzed using Chi Square test. Based on the research results, meaningful difference is obtained with significance p = 0.003. The distribution results show smokers with mild clinical symptom who have positive lesion image of thorax photos are 14 people (56%) and who have negative lesion image of thorax photos are 11 people (44%). Smokers with moderate clinical symptom whohave positive lesion image of thorax photos are 20 people (80%) and negative ones are 5 people (20%). Meanwhile,smokers with severe clinical symptomwho have positive lesion image of thorax photos are24 people (96%) and negative ones are 1 (4%). So the total subjects who have positive lesion image of thorax photosare 58 people (77.3%) and the negative ones are 17 people (22.7%).