Efektifitas Pemberian Informasi Kesehatan Tentang Sanitasi Lingkungan Rumah pada Pemulung di Tempat Pembuangan Akhir Sampah Kota Medan

Abstrak

Garbage Disposal Site of Medan City is surrounded by residence of scavengers, so that the settlements are dense and slum and have the potential for disease to occur in the community. Scavengers generally have low education and lack of maintenance of their home environment sanitation. The research objective was to analyze the effectiveness of providing health information to scavenger knowledge about home environmental sanitation in the garbage Disposal Site of Medan City. This type of research is a quasi-experimental design with a pretest-posttest group design. The population of the study was all scavengers in the Garbage Disposal Site of Medan City whose samples were taken purposively by 30 people. Data analysis used the Wilcoxon test with 95% confidence interval (CI). The results showed that giving health information using power point presentation proved effective in increasing the knowledge of scavengers in Garbage Disposal Site of Medan City with an increase in the average value of knowledge from 10.87 (SD = 3.35) to 12.10 (SD = 3.29) with p = 0.001. It is recommended that the Public Health Center makes a health education program using power point presentations continuously about house sanitation to the scavengers in the prevention of diseases.