Knowledge and Attitude of Junior-High-School Children in Bogor, Indonesia, Related to Climate Change Health Impacts

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10.2991/ahsr.k.200311.043How to use a DOI?

Keywords

climate change, knowledge, attitude, health impact, school children

Abstract

Sustainable Development Goals require the capacity for resilience and adaptation to climate-related disasters to be strengthened. This capacity is fundamental in healthy city development, which also highlights the importance for youth to have it as early as possible. Therefore, it is crucial to understand their current state before building their capacity. This study aims at measuring the level of knowledge and attitude of junior-high-school students in Bogor City, West Java Province, Indonesia, on health impacts of climate change and identifying predictors of such knowledge and attitude. A cross-sectional study involving purposively selected 142 students aged 12 to 14 years old in a state-owned junior high school was implemented in 2015. A structured questionnaire was used to mine data regarding the knowledge of and attitude towards climate change health impacts, ownership and utilization of information access, school subject, and supports from close related person. Bivariate analysis was conducted with Chi-square test and multivariate analysis with logistic regression at 0.05 significance. Eighty-two female and sixty male students took part in this study. The proportion of students with good level of knowledge on the health effects of climate change was 69%; meanwhile, 51.4% of the students had less supportive attitude toward the issue of climate change health impacts. The multivariate analysis revealed that an association occurred between the knowledge level and family income (income of IDR 2.5-5 million: AOR 4.63 95%CI 1.26-17.04). Similarly, the level of attitude was associated with maternal education (AOR 2.37 95%CI 1.05-5.34). These results suggest that, in climate change impacts, knowledge is not necessarily in line with attitude and family background has a major role to shape both aspects. Health promotion efforts on climate change health impacts should touch on family experience.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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  - Tities Puspita
AU  - Kenti Friskarini
AU  - Rina Marina
AU  - Anton Suryatma
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/20
TI  - Knowledge and Attitude of Junior-High-School Children in Bogor, Indonesia, Related to Climate Change Health Impacts
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th Universitas Ahmad Dahlan Public Health Conference (UPHEC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 220
EP  - 226
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200311.043
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200311.043
ID  - Puspita2020
ER  -