The Effectiveness of Health Education on Improving Santris’ Knowledge about the Dangers of Scabies at Al Mubtadi'ien Bahrul Ulum Tambak Beras Jombang Sutarti Tatik1,*, Abdul Muhith2, Anwar Mallongi3, Putri Ronasari Mahaji4, Dewi Novita4 1Lecturer in STIKIP PGRI Pacitan 2Associate Professor in Nursing Department of STIKes Majapahit Mojokerto 3Environmental Health Departemen Faculty of Public Health Universitas Hasanudin Makasar, Indonesia 4Lecturer in Fakultas Ilmu Kesehatan, Universitas Tribhuwana Tunggadewi Malang *Coresponding author: Tatik Sutarti email: tatisuryo@gmail.com, Lecturer in STIKIP PGRI Pacitan
Online published on 2 February, 2019. Abstract Islamic boarding school is one area that has a high incidence of scabies. The poor personal santri hygiene is one of the causes of the spread of scabies. Santris’ knowledge needs to be increased to reduce the spread of scabies in Islamic boarding school. The aim of the study is to determine the effectiveness of health education on improving santris’ knowledge about the dangers of scabies in Islamic boarding school Al Mubtadi'ien Bahrul Ulum Tambak Beras Jombang. The design of the study is pre-experimental pre-test-post-test control group design. The population was all male students who live in Islamic boarding school Al Mubtadi'ien Bahrul Ulum Jombang Tambak Beras Jombang as many as 60 people, with a sample of 30 people obtained by accidental sampling. The independent variable is health education, while the dependent variable is known. The health promotion methods were used for the health education by using video as the media, while to explore the knowledge about the danger of Scabies, it used the questionnaires that were tested the validity and reliability. The data analysis used Wilcoxon matching pairs. The results obtained before the health education of the danger of scabies, most students have a suffcient category of knowledge as many as 20 people (66.6) and improved to 19 people (63.3%). It is concluded that there is an infuence of health education knowledge of students about the dangers of scabies at Islamic boarding school Al Mubtadi'ien Bahrul Ulum Tambak Beras Jombang. Top Keywords Health education, personal hygiene, scabies. Top |