Analisis Faktor Yang Mempengaruhi Pengetahuan Tenaga Teknis Kefarmasian Tentang Hepatitis B Di Kabupaten Sragen

Abstract

Hepatitis B was a disease caused by hepatitis B virus infection and caused liver inflammation, and it can also resulted in chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. The resulted of Riskesdas in 2013 showed that hepatitis prevalence in Indonesia in 2013 by 1,2% increased twice compared to Riskesdas in 2007, which amount to 0,6%. The most common type of hepatitis that infected the population of Indonesia is hepatitis B by 21,8%. According to research conducted by Ogundele et al. (2017), the precautioned of any disease was proportional to knowledge, behavior, and practiced, hence oversight that resulted in the transmission of disease can be reduced by having good knowledge. Pharmaceutical Technical Personnel was one part of the health labor that had a role in pharmaceutical services. The purpose of this study was to established the level of knowledge of Pharmaceutical Technical Personnel about hepatitis B in Sragen Regency. This researched was classified of non-experimental researched by divided questionnaires and then analyzed descriptively about each respondent's characteristics and analyzed for the predictor factors. A total of Pharmaceutical Technical Workers is 123, there are 103 people (83.74%) who had a good knowledge categorized, and as many as 20 people (16.26%) had a poor knowledge categorized about hepatitis B, and the respondent's labor was the most significant predictorns.