DEVELOPING WALL CLOCKS AS HEALTH PROMOTION MEDIA FOR HOUSEWIFE TARGET IN THE PREVENTION OF DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER (DHF) IN INDRAMAYU

Sugiarto, Heri and Widiastuti , Setyo Dwi and Priyatna, Bayu Sela (2015) DEVELOPING WALL CLOCKS AS HEALTH PROMOTION MEDIA FOR HOUSEWIFE TARGET IN THE PREVENTION OF DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER (DHF) IN INDRAMAYU. PROCEEDINGS International Seminar and Workshop on Public Health Action "Building Healthy Community".

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Abstract

Up to 2012, Larva-Free Numbers Dengue (ABJ) in Indonesia was still low, as well as in Indramayu , which is still below the target, which has only reached 80 % of the target of 95 % . ABJ target achievement done by the efforts of The Eradication of DHF Mosquito Breeding Place (PSN - DBD). Housewife role in doing PSN-DBD is very important. Health promotion media could encourage housewife in doing PSN - DBD. The aim of this study was to develop clocks as a health promotion media to target housewives in the DHF prevention in Indramayu . This type of research was action research. The population in this study were housewives. For developing wall clocks, purposive sampling was taken by certain criteria of 10 housewives, the data collected and analyzed using qualitative analysis. For testing clocks product sample, sample numbers of 30 housewives were taken, data were collected and analyzed by using quantitative descriptive analysis. This research has produced a wall clock with shapes, images, text, color, sound reminder ( alarm) in accordance with the character of housewives. The trial results of wall clocks as health media promotion for DHF prevention, suggested that there were differences in the housewives PSN-DBD action and differences also in the presence of dengue mosquito larvae in water storages in the home and surounding enviroments before and after the test sample product media. Larger samples and longer duration of intervention needed to test the effectiveness this media. Keywords: Wall Clock, Housewife, DHF Prevention

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