Gambaran Perilaku Kebersihan Diri pada Anak Usia Sekolah di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Kunir Kabupaten Lumajang selama Masa Pandemi COVID-19

Abstract

Personal hygiene in school-age children is an important thing that must be done in daily activities. The purpose of this study is to identify a description of personal hygiene behavior in elementary school-age children in the working area of the Kunir Health Center, Lumajang Regency during the COVID-19 pandemic. The design of this study was cross sectional and A cross-sectional study was conducted on 205 school-age children using the proportional stratified random sampling method. The one sample Kolmogrov–Smirnov test was used to answer the research objectives results for each indicator were obtained (ρ-value 0.000). Results of the research on the motivational indicators related to personal hygiene behavior were included in the very good category (47.3%), the perception indicators of the benefits of personal hygiene behavior were very good (47.8%), the inhibiting indicators that were felt were included in the very good category (58 .5%), and the behavior of school-age children's personal hygiene practices was in the very good category (76.6%). It can be concluded that most of the indicators of the Health Promotion Model component in personal hygiene behavior are in a very good category. Based on the concept of the Health Promotion Model (HPM) theory, self-hygiene behavior in school-age children can be practiced well and have good results if there are several efforts provided through financial assistance, both promotive and preventive efforts.