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Relationship of Knowledge and Attitude to the Role of Health Personnel in Management of Stunting Events in School Children, Tuah Negeri District, Musi Rawas Regency Nirwana Nirwana; Rico Januar Sitorus; Nur Alam Fajar
Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal): Humanities and Social Sciences Vol 4, No 3 (2021): Budapest International Research and Critics Institute August
Publisher : Budapest International Research and Critics University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33258/birci.v4i3.2317

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Prevention of stunting is carried out by health service providers in an effort to create the next generation of the nation that is healthy, reactive and productive. The purpose of this study was to see the relationship between knowledge and attitudes with the role of health workers in dealing with stunting in school children. Method : Quantitative research with cross sectional design. The population is 156. Sample The study was conducted on 55 respondents who met the inclusion criteria. The measuring instrument in this study is a questionnaire sheet with data analysis using Univariate, Bivariate, and Multivariate tests. The research was conducted in March 2021 in the working area of the Air Beliti Health Center. Result: there is a significant relationship between attitudes and the role of health workers in preventing stunting in school children (p = 0.043), and there is no relationship between knowledge and the role of health workers and the role of health workers in dealing with stunting (p = 0.446). The results of the multivariate analysis using the logistic regression method showed an effect of 5.925 times on the role of health workers in dealing with stunting. Conclusion: from the results of the study, it was found that there was a relationship between attitude and the role of health workers in dealing with stunting in school children, it was suggested to health workers to improve good attitudes as a control effort by developing programs with more interesting innovations and teaching posyandu cadres. So that cadre mothers can convey and inform those who are pregnant, and have pre-school and elementary school age children so that the incidence of stunting can be reduced  
Analysis of Socio-Economic Status, Morphology, and Dominant Factors of Personal Hygiene Behavior on the Incidence of Pediculosis Capitis at Orphanages in Palembang City, Indonesia Jhon Riswanda; Chairil Anwar; Mohammad Zulkarnain; Rico Januar Sitorus
Budapest International Research and Critics Institute-Journal (BIRCI-Journal) Vol 5, No 2 (2022): Budapest International Research and Critics Institute May
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33258/birci.v5i2.4795

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Pediculosis capitis affects all races and all social levels, but low socio-economic status is more affected by this disease. The mode of transmission can be direct (hair to hair) or through intermediaries such as hats, pillows, mattresses, combs, and veils. This study aims to analysis of socio-economic status, morphology, and dominant factors of personal hygiene behavior on the incidence of pediculosis capitis at Orphanages in Palembang City, Indonesia. The cross-sectional design is a sample of all orphanages in Palembang City. The results obtained were then analyzed by chi-square, logistics regression statistical test, and correspondence analysis. Morphology of pediculosis capitis female body length is 2461.70µm, male is 2596.90µm. Antenna shape are shorter and wider, abdomen curve is protruding. Crest of the paraterga plate is extends into the intersegmental membrane. Knowledge of respondents is not good and suffers from pediculosis capitis by 43 (74.1%), knowledge of respondents is good 52 (57.8%), attitude of respondents is negative and suffers from pediculosis capitis 27 (87.1%), positive attitude of the respondent suffered from pediculosis capitis 25 (42.4%), the respondent's actions were not good and suffered from pediculosis capitis 34 (75.6%), the respondent's action was good 18 (40%). The results of the logistic regression test: the most dominant factor is the attitude of the respondents (OR: 6.260 95% CI: 1.836-21.34). This research needs to be continued with individual characteristics in improving behavior in preventing pediculosis capitis.