GAMBARAN PERILAKU ORANGTUA TERHADAP PENYAKIT KONJUNGTIVITIS PADA ANAK DI DUSUN POTROBAYAN SRIHARDONO PUNDONG BANTUL
Abstract
Conjunctiva and cornea are the part of eyes that often interact with
surrounding environment. It cause conjunctiva and cornea more at risk to be
trought an inflammation or conjunctivitis. In this case, the most conjunctivitis
patients is children. Then parents behavior is very important due to the lack of
children awareness and responsibility to his own health related to conjunctivitis.
So there is a need to have a research about parents behavior against conjunctivitis
disease on child.
The purpose of this research was to know about parents behavior in
handling conjunctivitis and their behavior in preventing conjunctivitis on child.
This research uses the quantitative descriptive method by cross sectional
design. The subjects of this research is parents in Potrobayan Srihardono Pundong
Bantul, with a population of 246 people and 71 people as the sample. The study is
done in June 2016. The population of the research is all parents who lives in
Potrobayan Srihardono Pundong Bantul and the sample is all parents that are
willing to become respondents and have children who experienced conjunctivitis.
The results of the study concluded that there are 58 people (81.7 %)from 71
that have good prevention behavior and 13 people ( 18.3 % ) have enough
prevention behavior. As for handling conjuctivitis behavior found that 53 people
(74.6 % ) from 71 have enough handling behavior, 14 people ( 22.5 % ) have good
handling behavior, and 2 people ( 2.8 % ) have less handling behavior.
The most of the parents behavior in preventing conjunctivitis to their
children in Potrobayan Srihardono Pundong Bantul is good and the parents
behavior in handling conjunctivitis disease on child in potrobayan srihardono
pundong bantul is mainly enough.