Open AccessMEDIA LEAFLET MENCEGAH LEPRA DI DESA KAYULOMA KECAMATAN BASIDONDO KABUPATEN TOLI-TOLI
Author(s) -
Yulianus Sudarman H Melangka
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
poltekita
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2527-7170
pISSN - 1907-459X
DOI - 10.33860/jik.v12i02.103
Subject(s) - leprosy , respondent , nonprobability sampling , health education , medicine , family medicine , environmental health , demography , public health , immunology , population , pathology , sociology , political science , law
ABSTRACT Leprosy is one of the infectious diseases caused by Mycobakterium leprae. Lack of knowledge, attitudes and actions against leprosy, making this disease feared by the public. This study aims to knowing the effect of education method with leaflet media on knowledge, attitude and actions on behavior of leprosy patients to prevention of leprosy in the Kayulompah Village Basidondo District of Tolitoli Regency. This study used quasi eksperimen technique with non-randomized pre dan posttest only control design. The study sample are the 40 leprosy patients with purposive sampling technique. The independent variables are educational methods of lectures with media leaflets about leprosy and it’s prevention, while the dependent variable is knowledge, attitude and action of respondent. The technique of data analysis used paired sample t-test. The result of the study show that there are influence of educational intervention using lecture method with media leaflet on knowledge, attitude and actions on behavior of leprosy patients to prevention of leprosy in the Kayulompah Village Basidondo District of Tolitoli Regency 2017. It is proved by the p-value of pretest and posttest in each variable is significantly smaller than 0.05 (5%) is knowledge 0,000; attitude is 0,000 and actions is 0,000. The average value of knowledge, attitudes and actions of respondents who experienced an increase each week, show that intervention using lecture method with media leaflet give a positive impact of change on knowledge, attitudes and actions of leprosy patients and prevention.Keywords : leprosy, health education, leaflet media