ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE DIFFERENCE BEFORE AND AFTER GETTING INFORMATION ON THE BEHAVIOR OF CLEAN AND HEALTHY LIVING

Husaini, Husaini and laily, Nur and Saputra, Maman (2015) ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE DIFFERENCE BEFORE AND AFTER GETTING INFORMATION ON THE BEHAVIOR OF CLEAN AND HEALTHY LIVING. PROCEEDINGS International Seminar and Workshop on Public Health Action "Building Healthy Community".

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Abstract

Melayu Elementary School which is located along the Martapura river has great potential to have students who used to perform daily activities using the river water. Children who live along the river spend their time on the river. This makes them vulnerable to infection of various diseases, either directly through the skin infection when they were playing in the river and indirectly, through drinking water from the source of water from rivers where they live. One of the right solutions about this conditions is by providing then with health education to increase knowledge and awareness about health. This knowledge is especially, given to the children of school age to maintain the clean and healthy lifestyle (healthy and hygiene practices, PHBS). This research is a quantitative research using quasi-experimental approach with one group pre- and post-test design. The population of the study is 49 students, with sample of 29 respondents who were determined by using purposive sampling technique. Instruments of the research is using questionnaires. The treatment variable is the provision of health promotion information about the behavior of healthy and clean life, while the dependent variable is the knowledge of elementary school students in Melayu Elementary School .The results showed that two students (6.9%), still have less knowledge and as many as 27 students (93.1%) have a good knowledge about PHBS prior to counseling. While after the treatment, there is no students who has less knowledge or all students (100%) have a good knowledge of PHBS. Based on Wilcoxon test, it showed that there was no difference in knowledge, before and after counseling. This is because almost all of the students already have a good knowledge prior to counseling so there was no significant difference in the level of knowledge after counseling. Keywords : Education, Knowledge, PHBS

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