The Role of the School’s Health Clinic Teacher on Clean and Healthy Life Behavior in Elementary School Students in the South Ternate City

Abstract

Clean living behavior and health in schools is a set of behaviors that are practiced by students, teachers andthe school community based on awareness so that they are independently able to prevent disease, improvetheir health, and play an active role in creating a healthy environment. The purpose of this study was toanalyzed the role of the school’s health clinic teacher on a clean and healthy life behavior in elementaryschool students in South Ternate City. This research is pre-experimental with method one group pre-posttest design. The unit of analysis in this study was all grade 4 and 5 elementary schools in South TernateCity, with a sample size of 269 students. The sampling technique is done by stratified random sampling.This analysis used paired sample t test. The results showed that the teacher’s role in the respondent’sknowledge (p=0,000) the attitude (p=0.000) and the skills of the respondent (p=0.002). This mean that thereare significant differences between the pretest and posttest groups. The conclusion in this study is that thereis an effect of the role of the teacher School’s Health Clinic on clean and healthy behavior in students in theSouth Ternate City Elementary School.