Berita Kedokteran Masyarakat
The 12th UGM Public Health Symposium

Correlation of Knowledge Level and Preventing Behavior of COVID19 in Talete 1 Tomohon

Pangkey, Marverio Robert Alexander (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
12 Jun 2024

Abstract

Purpose: This study explores how preventing behavior of COVID-19 can be related to the level of knowledge from people that have different types of knowledge stages and different educational backgrounds in Talete 1 known as places of traditional market that sell extreme raw ingredients such as wild animal and some of animal that get protected based on law. Methods: A survey of 100 people who live near the traditional market called Talete 1 who get a question from a questioner that can evaluate and score the knowledge, attitude, and an action of the people with a different level of knowledge and education background to get a correlation of the level of knowledge and the preventing behavior of COVID19. Results: The analysis shows a relation between education level and COVID-19 prevention behavior (calculated value 0,509 and p-value 0,000). Conclusion: a survey that the researcher got shows a correlation between a level of knowledge and preventing COVID-19 behavior. The questionnaire results imply that people with higher education degrees are more educated on how to prevent COVID-19. From this research, we can get new lessons and suggest that we need to keep up the education in every part of Indonesia and keep promoting health information so all people can remember it.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

bkm

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Subject

Nursing Public Health

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Berita Kedokteran Masyarakat (BKM Public Health and Community Medicine) is a peer-reviewed and open access journal that deals with the fields of public health and public medicine. The topics of the article will be grouped according to the main message of the author. This focus covers areas and scope ...