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OBJECTIVE This study purposed to determine the relationship of informational support from family with self-efficacy of tuberculosis clients. METHOD It applied cross sectional design to 99 tuberculosis clients as purposive samples at one Public Health Center in South Jakarta. The result showed that there was a relationship between informational support and self-efficacy (p value 0.002, α 0.05). RESULTS The TBC clients with less family support were at risk of 4.047 times of low self-efficacy compared to clients with good family supports (95% CI OR: 1.721; 9.519). CONCLUSION The study concluded that informational support is important for tuberculosis treatment. This study recommends empowering family in providing informational support to increase the self-efficacy among tuberculosis clients.