The Influence of Reward and Communication to Cohesion Team of Tuberculosis Prevention Team in Community Health Centers

Abstract

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the tuberculosis virus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Indonesia is the third country after India and China that has 420.994 tuberculosis cases. East Java was
ranked in the second among other provinces in Indonesia with more than 20.000 newly cases. Surabaya
has the highest number of tuberculosis cases in East Java with the success rate of less than 90%. The key
role of a community health center is to support the program of tuberculosis prevention but the organization
frequently did not achieve the goal of health program. The study was an observational analytic on the team
of tuberculosis prevention in Surabaya’s community health centers. The sample was taken using stratified
random sampling and chose 43 teams of tuberculosis prevention with simple random sampling. Total of
participants was 318 people consisted of a doctors, nurses, and health analysts. The statistical analysis was
a linear regression test. The findings showed reward influenced significantly toward team cohesion, while
communication variable did not influence to team cohesion. The research concluded there was an influence
of intrinsic reward toward cohesion in a team. Team cohesion is one of team process enabling to support
team performance to achieve program target of tuberculosis prevention so it suggested paying attention to
their staff particularly intrinsic reward by the management.