Pemberdayaan Keluarga Sebagai Upaya Menurunkan Kepadatan Larva Aedes spp. dalam Pencegahan Penularan Demam Berdarah Dengue

Abstract

Abstract. One House One Jumantik Programme (G1R1J) has been launched by the Indonesian governmentsince 2015. This programme emphasizes the participation of family members as jumantik rumah bymonitoring and controlling larvae in their houses. Family’s coaching in the G1R1J’s programme is carried outby each jumantik coordinator. Tasikmalaya and Cimahi were Dengue endemic areas with high cases in thelast five years. This study aimed to determine the effect of family empowerment by the Jumantik Coordinatorin reducing the density of Aedes spp. larvae, reducing the number of DHF cases and increasing familyparticipation in vector surveillance. The study was located in the Tasikmalaya and Cimahi areas andconducted with an intervention. The interventions included RW-level workshops, coaching, and observationby jumantik coordinator. The sample unit is a family, consist of 400 unit in the intervention area and 200unit in the comparison area. The results showed that there were significant differences in the status ofcommunity participation in eradicating mosquito nests (PSN). The presence of dengue patients and thepresence of Aedes spp mosquito larvae were different between before and after the intervention both inTasikmalaya and Cimahi. In addition, there are significant differences in the status of communityparticipation in PSN, the presence of dengue cases, the presence of Aedes spp. larvae and theimplementation of vector surveillance by families in the intervention and comparison areas. The resultsconcluded that family coaching interventions and observations by the Jumantik Coordinator, proved to havean effect on community participation in PSN, decreasing dengue cases, increasing larvae free index (ABJ)and vector surveillance implementation by families.Keywords: Society participation, Dengue cases, Jumantik House, One House One Jumantik