Introduction - TB is an ancient disease. Evidence of existence of TB has been found in the bones of pre historic man, found in Germany.Tuberculosis kills more people worldwide than any other infectious disease. The world health organization (WHO) estimates that more than 8 million new cases of tuberculosis occurs each year, and approximately 3 million people die from the disease. Objectives - 1. To determine the knowledge of pulmonary tuberculosis patients using a structured knowledge questionnaire. 2. To determine the attitude of pulmonary tuberculosis patients using attitude scale. 3. To determine the anxiety level of pulmonary tuberculosis patients using modified SCAT anxiety scale. 4. To find out the association between knowledge, attitude and anxiety level with selected demographic variables such as age, gender, educational status and duration of illness. METHODOLOGY REASERCH DESIGN Descriptive survey design was adopted to determine the knowledge, attitude and anxiety level of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. SAMPLE Pulmonary TB patients who are confirmed to have positive pulmonary tuberculosis and admitted to the selected TB sanatorium during the time of study. SAMPLE SIZE: 50 SAMPLING TECHNIQUE: A Convenient sampling technique was used. FINDINGS Table 1: Distribution of subjects according to the attitude scores n = 50 Categories Score Frequency Positive attitude 26-50 22 Negative attitude 0 – 25 28 Table 2: Distribution of patients according to the anxiety scores n = 50 Categories Score Frequency Percentage Severe anxiety 21-30 01 02% Moderate anxiety 11 – 21 30 60%