The Influence Of Health Education To Parents Through The Children With Hand Puppets And Comic Strip On Knowledge Of Healthy Latrine Use

摘要

Objective: The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of health education given to parents through the child about knowledge, attitudes, and practices the healthy latrine use in the public health center of Dalam Pagar. Method: This study used quantitative methods, and the type of research is queasy experimental with non-equivalent control group design. Samples are chosen using a purposive sampling technique, which consisted of 40 peoples which are divided into 20 people in the treatment group and the control group. Results: The results showed differences in knowledge of healthy latrine usage between before and after the given health education (p-value: 0,013), where an increase in knowledge in the treatment group is higher than the control group. Conclusion: Health education is given to parents through the child have received in the form of health education use hand puppets and media health promotion in the form of comic strips in local language increase knowledge of healthy latrine usage.