Sex and Type of Mask to Prevent Acute Respiratory Infections in New Normal Era Among Nursing Students

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10.2991/978-94-6463-186-9_4How to use a DOI?

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Sex; Mask; Infections; Students

Abstract

The high incidence of acute respiratory infections (ARI) still is a health problem in Indonesia. As the new normal mandated by the government, the widespread use of masks is the key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic. The study was centered to identify the relationship between sex and type of mask to prevent acute respiratory infections during the COVID-19 new normal among nursing students in Jakarta.

This cross-sectional study selected 304 students from Universitas Binawan and the Institute of Health Husada Hospital. The independent variable was gender and mask type. The dependent variable was the incidence of ARI. Data were analyzed by the frequency distribution of gender, mask type, and ARI. Bivariate analysis using Spearman’s rank correlation test and Contingency Coefficient test with a significance level of 95% (p < 0,05).

As many as 20 participants were male with the incidence of ARI, 182 participants were female with no incidence of ARI (59.9%), 105 participants who wore KF94 had no incidence of ARI, while 53 participants reported the ARI incidence. The Contingency Coefficient test showed a correlation between gender to incidence ARI with a significant p-value of 0.008 (p < 0.05). This study found a connection between sex and the type of mask worn to prevent ARI. Although the number of COVID-19 cases is declining, we propose to normalize the use of masks to prevent respiratory infections.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Apriana Rahmawati
AU  - Ulfa Nur Rohmah
AU  - Shenda Maulina Wulandari
AU  - Harizza Pertiwi
AU  - Agung Setiyadi
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/06/14
TI  - Sex and Type of Mask to Prevent Acute Respiratory Infections in New Normal Era Among Nursing Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st World Conference on Health and Social Science (WCHSS 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 25
EP  - 32
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-186-9_4
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-186-9_4
ID  - Rahmawati2023
ER  -