Knowledge and Attitude Relationship With Prevention Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19)
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- 10.2991/ahsr.k.201125.056How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- knowledge, attitude, covid-19
- Abstract
Corona Virus Disease or what is often called COVID-19 is a problem in the world and also in Indonesia. Data on positive cases of COVID-19 in West Lombok as of 1 May 2020 were 35 positive cases. According to WHO, COVID-19 is spread from person to person through tiny droplets from the nose or mouth that are spread when a person coughs or exhales. The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge and attitude relationship with prevention Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19). This research method is an analytical observational study. The population are the house wife count of 626.941 and the sample technique is proportional sampling a number of 364 people. The data was collected with instrument as be a questioner. The data analysis used is the Chi- Square test. The result shows that there was a relationship between knowledge and Covid-19 transmission prevention behavior. The OR value of 27.8 indicates that people with good knowledge have a 27.8 times chance of doing prevention. The relationship between attitudes and behavior to prevent Covid-19 transmission has an OR value of 41.8, indicating that people who are positive have 41.8 times the chance to take prevention compared to those who are negative. In conclusion, a person’s knowledge and attitude about COVID-19 will affect the prevention of transmission of covid-19 in communities in West Lombok.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Susilia Idyawati AU - Ni Putu Aryani AU - Baiq Ricca Afrida AU - Nurul Hikmah Annisa AU - Anna Layla Salfarina PY - 2020 DA - 2020/11/25 TI - Knowledge and Attitude Relationship With Prevention Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19) BT - Proceedings of the International Conference of Health Development. Covid-19 and the Role of Healthcare Workers in the Industrial Era (ICHD 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 321 EP - 324 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.201125.056 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.201125.056 ID - Idyawati2020 ER -