Introduction:

Nowadays, lung tuberculosis is still one of the most important infectious processes in the world.

Objective:

To design a project of community intervention directed to patients with risk of lung tuberculosis.

Methods:

It was carried out a descriptive cross-sectional’s type study in the Family Doctor’s Office #9 belonging to "Mario Antonio Pérez Mollinedo" Teaching Policlinic from November, 2015 to March, 2017. It was selected a sample of 56 patients from a population of 125 patients classified as with risk of Tuberculosis. The selection’s strategy was based in an intentional non-probabilistic sampling by criteria. Different methods and techniques were applied as documentary analysis and questionnaires. Descriptive statistic and the analysis of qualitative data were used for processing information.

Results:

The risk factors that these patients were exposed were: smoking habit (57.1%); consumption of alcoholic beverages (46.4%); to live in overcrowding conditions (44.6%); housings with bad conditions (33.9%); to be exposed to more than 2 risk factors (58.9%); suffering Diabetes Mellitus (14.2%); bronchial asthma and COPD (21.4%); and low level of knowledge on lung tuberculosis (83.9%).

Conclusions:

The project of community intervention directed to patients with risk of Lung Tuberculosis, according to the specialists’ assessment, it is pertinent and feasible. At the moment is in the application phase in the health area where it was carried out the investigation as part of a thesis of specialty.

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