Title:
THE INFLUENCE OF LEAFLETS AND FLIPCHARTS ON INCREASING KNOWLEDGE,
ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE PREVENTION OF
SCHISTOSOMIASIS IN LINDU SUBDISTRICT, SIGI REGENCY, CENTRAL SULAWESI |
Abstract:
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease caused by worm infections belonging to the class trematode.
Moreover, the disease zoonotic most commonly ignored, however, schistosomiasis is still exceed
based on health ministry of Republic of Indonesia, which is 1%. Leaflets and flipcharts were used as
media in this study. Moreover, the purpose of the study was to analyze the influence of leaflets and
flipcharts so that it would increase knowledge, attitude and practice. The research method used
quasi-experiment with pre-test and post-test, sample selection by random sampling which were 123
respondents (for intervention villages each 41 respondents and 41 respondents in the control group).
Kruskal Wallis was used in this study due to data was not normally distributed. After obtaining the
data, it showed that before leaflet intervention pretest knowledge was 51.2%, attitude was 53.7% and
practice was 58.5%, in the intervention group knowledge of flipcharts was 58.5% attitudes was
61.0% and practice was 17.1%, for control at pretest knowledge was 39.0%, attitude was 63.4% and
practice was 41.5%. The finding are still relatively low compared to after intervention. So that, the
head of the family should have high knowledge and self-awareness when working and always clean
and healthy living behavior so that schistosomiasis cases can be prevented. |
