South East Asia Nursing Research
Vol 3, No 1 (2021)

Community Knowledge and Compliance in Doing Prevention of COVID-19

Setyawati, Dewi (Unknown)
Ningrum, Mei Yolla (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 Mar 2021

Abstract

Community compliance in taking measures to prevent transmission of COVID-19 must be based on good knowledge about COVID-19 so that it can break the chain of transmission of COVID-19. The objective of this research to determine the relationship between the level of community knowledge about COVID-19 with compliance to prevent COVID-19 at the Community Health Center of Jati Kudus. This study used a quantitative analysis with a cross-sectional approach. The population was 115 people treated at Community Health Center of Jati Kudus with range aged 17-35 years, then got 89 respondents were obtained using the purposive sampling technique. The instrument used was a questionnaire. From the results of univariate data testing, 65 respondents (73%) had good knowledge of COVID-19, while those who had sufficient knowledge were 24 people (27%). The results showed that all respondents complied with the prevention measures for COVID-19 with a percentage of 100%. Based on the bivariate test result, it was found that there was a relationship between the level of knowledge and compliance in preventing transmission of COVID-19 with a p-value of 0.034 and r (correlation coefficient) of 0.225. It can be concluded that there was a relationship between the level of public knowledge about COVID-19 and compliance with COVID-19 prevention at the Pubic Health Center of Jati Kudus.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

SEANR

Publisher

Subject

Education Health Professions Nursing Public Health

Description

South East Asia Nursing Research is intended to be the university journal for publishing articles reporting the results of research in nursing. South East Asia Nursing Research invites manuscripts in the areas of medical-surgical nursing, emergency and disaster nursing, critical nursing, pediatric ...