Abstract :
Introduction: Pulmonary TB was an infectious disease that was a world health problem, pulmonary TB that occurred because it was infected with the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria that attacked the lungs. Nutrition was an important component in the healing of pulmonary TB patients. ETC.
Research purposes : to identify nutritional was needed in pulmonary TB patients. Method: in making this literature review the data source was secondary data, the data search was accessed through the goggle scholar and science directed databases by empirical studied of the last 5 years, by taking relevant journals in Indonesian and English with the phrase TB disease and nutrition the study design were; cross sectional, case study, case control, and retrospective prospective study. Abstracts and journals were reviewed before being included in the inclusion and exclusion criteria, this study used the PICOS guidelines. Results: based on the results of 5 journals accessed as data in writing this literature review, most (40%) were published in 2020. This study (60%) used a cross sectional design. Research in the journal (60%) used purposive sampling by using research (40%) informed consent. The analysis of this study used the Wilcoxon test (40%) and the chi square test (40%). Conclusion: from research with 5 journals with empirical studies in the last 5 years, it could be concluded that the nutritional was needed of pulmonary TB patients and it was very important.