Efektifitas Pendidikan Kesehatan dengan Pendekatan Kelompok Sosial terhadap Peningkatan Pengetahuan dan Sikap Pengendalian Penyakit Tidak Menular (PTM) pada Masyarakat

Abstract

The results of a preliminary study of Punggur District, Central Lampung, since 2018, the highest diseases are hypertension and DM. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of health education with a social group approach to increasing knowledge and attitudes towards controlling non-communicable diseases in the community in Punggur District, Central Lampung. This type of quasi-experimental research, with a nonequivalent group pretest-posttest control design. The population was 60 people consisting of experimental group 1 (Recitation Social Group) of 30 people and experimental group 2 (Posbindu Social Group) of 30 people. The intervention is in the form of health education with a social group approach. The Wilcoxon test was used to determine the effect of the intervention on both groups and the Mann-Whitney test to determine the effectiveness of health education methods with a social group approach to increasing people's knowledge and attitudes towards controlling NCDs. The significance limit (confidence interval) is 95% and the p-value is 0.05. The results showed that there were differences in knowledge and attitudes before and after the intervention in experimental group 1 (Recitation Social Group), with each p-value<0.001 and there were differences in knowledge and attitudes in experimental group 2 (Posbindu Social Group), with p- value<0.001. The results of the post-test revealed that there were differences in knowledge between experimental group 1 (Recitation Social Group) and experimental group 2 (Posbindu Social Group) (p-value 0.043) and there were also differences in attitudes (p-value 0.028). It is recommended to expand health education activities with other social group approaches with more conducive methods and techniques and a larger number of respondents.