Behavior Analysis of Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19) Transmission Prevention With Health Belief Model Approach

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10.2991/assehr.k.210125.046How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Covid-19, Health Belief Model, Preventive Behavior

Abstract

Covid-19 is a global pandemic and the tally keep on going up all across the world. The high prevalence or incidence of Covid-19 cases is of course related to individual perceptions of the disease which will shape the practice of Covid-19 transmission preventingin accordance with recommendations. This study aims to determine the Covif-19 transmission prevention behavior among students of the Medical Study Program FK Unimal class of 2017 based on the Health Belief Model application. This research was a descriptive analytic study, using cross sectional method with a total sampling of 86. The results of the study were presented as univkeepariate descriptive analysis and bivariate analysis using the chi square test. The results showed that 77% of respondents were female, 31% lived in green zone areas, 65.1% of respondents had Covid-19 prevention behavior in the fairly good category. Perceptions of vulnerability were mostly in the fairly good category with good enough behavior as many as 41 respondents (70.7%), the most perceived severity was in the fairly good category with good enough behavior as many as 34 respondents (66.7%). Fair category with good enough behavior, namely 52 respondents (75.4%), the most perceived benefits in the fairly good category with good enough behavior were 30 respondents (76.9%), perception cues to act obtained good perceptions with good enough behavior, namely 28 respondents (59.6%) and the perception was quite good with good enough behavior were 28 respondents (71.8%). The results of the bivariate analysis showed that perceived barrier factor had significant relationship with Covid-19 prevention behavior (p = 0.000).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Juwita Sahputri
AU  - Rizka Sofia
AU  - Teuku Azhari
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/01/26
TI  - Behavior Analysis of Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19) Transmission Prevention With Health Belief Model Approach
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science, Political Science, and Humanities (ICoSPOLHUM 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 279
EP  - 283
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210125.046
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210125.046
ID  - Sahputri2021
ER  -