Research Paper
Year: 2020 | Month: December | Volume: 7 | Issue: 12 | Pages: 360-365
Relationship between Knowledge and Attitudes with Health Behavior in the Prevention of COVID-19 at Senior High School, Medan City in 2020
Desy Nurbalqis1, Lita Sri Andayani2, Etti Sudaryati3
1,2,3Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia
Corresponding Author: Desy Nurbalqis
ABSTRACT
Health behavior plays an important role in increasing one's awareness in maintaining one's health. Especially to prevent oneself in order to avoid diseases, both infectious and non-communicable diseases. Recently the world is being faced with the problem of the corona virus which has become a widespread pandemic in several countries. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a type of disease that occurs due to infection with the SARS-CoV-2 type virus. This virus can be transmitted from animals to humans and humans to humans. Clinical manifestations can appear within one or two to fourteen days after exposure to the virus, but they can spread to other people even if no symptoms appear. This study aims to determine the relationship between knowledge and attitudes with health behavior in the prevention of COVID-19 in Senior High School, Medan City in 2020. This type of research is quantitative analytic with a cross sectional design. The number of population in this study was 1,119 with a total sample of 221 obtained using a random sampling system. The instrument in this study using a questionnaire used in the form of google form. The data obtained in this study were analyzed by bivariate and using chi-square. The results showed a p-value of 0.513>α=0.05, which means that there is no relationship between knowledge and health behavior in the prevention of COVID-19 at Senior High School, Medan City in 2020. For the attitude variable, the p-value is 0.076>α=0.05, which means that there is no relationship between attitude and health behavior in the prevention of COVID-19 at Senior High School, Medan City in 2020.
Keywords: Knowledge, Attitudes, Prevention, COVID-19.
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