Proceedings of the 2nd Syedza Saintika International Conference on Nursing, Midwifery, Medical Laboratory Technology, Public Health, and Health Information Management (SeSICNiMPH 2021)

The Relationship of Knowledge Level with Personal Hygiene in Children During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Authors
Veolina Irman, Ika Yulia Darma, Dwi Christina Rahayuningrum
Corresponding Author
Veolina Irman
Available Online 28 October 2021.
DOI
10.2991/ahsr.k.211026.050How to use a DOI?
Keywords
“Knowledge, Personal Hygiene, Covid 19 Pandemic”
Abstract

The minimal access to services for millions of children to basic health services is one impact of the lockdowns and school closures that have occurred in Indonesia. Knowledge of personal hygiene or personal hygiene has a play an important role in child development, because elementary school children aged 6 to 12 years have bodies that are susceptible to health problems. The condition of the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia has not yet recovered and this requires the awareness of every community to remain vigilant in trying to reduce the risk of transmission, one of which is by always taking care of their own health. This type of descriptive analytic research with cross sectional approach. This research was conducted on October 24, 2020 at SDN 10 Ganting. The total population is 96 people, and as many as 49 people were taken by simple random sampling technique. Univariate and bivariate analysis using Chi-square test. The results of the univariate analysis showed that more than half of the respondents, namely 39 people (79.6%) had poor personal hygiene, while 10 people (20.4) already had good personal hygiene, known from 49 samples, 35 samples were (71.4) have low knowledge and 14 people (28.6) already have high knowledge. based on the research that has been done, it was found that there is a significant relationship between personal hygiene and the level of knowledge in COVID-19 pandemic students with sig = 0.022 (p < 0.05).It is hoped that the results of this study can be taken into consideration by SDN 10 Ganting to further optimize efforts to increase knowledge about personal hygiene during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd Syedza Saintika International Conference on Nursing, Midwifery, Medical Laboratory Technology, Public Health, and Health Information Management (SeSICNiMPH 2021)
Series
Advances in Health Sciences Research
Publication Date
28 October 2021
ISBN
10.2991/ahsr.k.211026.050
ISSN
2468-5739
DOI
10.2991/ahsr.k.211026.050How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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