PENGETAHUAN DAN SIKAP TERHADAP PERILAKU PENCEGAHAN COVID-19 PADA REMAJA KOTA PALANGKA RAYA

Abstract

COVID-19 is a newly discovered global pandemic that affects almost all countries including Indonesia. Community knowledge, attitudes and practices are a measure of community awareness. The purpose of this research is to find out how the knowledge, attitudes and behavior of the COVID-19 pandemic among adolescents. The research design used was descriptive analytic with a cross sectional approach. The sample collected for this research was 635 teenagers. Data collection was carried out by distributing questionnaires to randomly selected samples. 619 respondents (97.5%) have good knowledge about COVID-19 with an average score of 9.79. Most respondents (61.1%) are afraid but remain optimistic that the COVID-19 pandemic can be controlled. Although there are still many respondents who are neutral regarding Indonesia's ability to fight the Covid-19 virus. The practice of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic shows that 98.2% of respondents claimed to have taken some precautionary measure (for example using a mask, washing their hands, etc.) to protect themselves and/or their families from COVID-19. And 91% of respondents still follow PSBB and PPKM rules which limit activities outside the home. Even though the level of adolescent knowledge about COVID-19 is already high, attitudes and behavior still need to be improved. High knowledge has also led to adolescent behavior to take care of themselves and be aware of COVID-19. But pessimism is still high. Keep in mind that due to the long-running pandemic, it has led to boredom and fatigue for COVID-19 precautions. Reflecting on the nearly two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in Indonesia, people have experienced fatigue due to the pandemic. This is marked by the ups and downs of the number of positive cases of COVID-19