HUBUNGAN PENGETAHUAN DAN SIKAP DENGAN PERILAKU PERAWAT DALAM PEMBUANGAN SAMPAH MEDIS DI RUMAH SAKIT PKU MUHAMMADIYAH YOGYAKARTA
Journal Title: Kes Mas: Jurnal Fakultas Kesehatan Masyarakat - Year 2012, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: Hospitals in organizing the efforts of health services will result in waste that could affect the surrounding environment, so it needs a good waste management efforts. The success of waste management is influenced by the behavior of nurses in performing particular medical waste specially. The waste management is good and right by the nurses is basically able to distinguish non-medical and medical waste. Factors knowledge and attitude is one factor in the formation of nurse behavior disposal of medical waste in hospitals. This study aims to determine the knowledge, attitudes and behavior of nurses, determine the relationship of knowledge to determine the relationship of behavior and attitudes to the behavior of nurses in medical waste disposal in PKU Muhammadiyah Hospital of Yogyakarta. Methods: This study was an observational analytic, using cross sectional approach. The research tool was used quesionnaire. The population in this study was nurse as many as 155 people and sample as many as 60 people who were on morning shift. Analysis of the data using univariate analysis using frequency distributions and bivariate analysis using the Kendall tau correlation test. Results: There was a relationship between the level of knowledge of the behavior of caregivers in the dump medical waste with coeffisien correlation of 0.373 with a significant value (ρ) are 0.002 which indicates that the value of (ρ) are smaller than the value of alpha (α). There was a link attitudes with behavior of nurses in the disposal of medical waste with coeffisien correlation is 0.414 with a significant value (ρ) are 0.000 which indicates that the value of (ρ) are smaller than the value of alpha (α). Conclusion: There was a relationship between knowledge of the behavior of nurses in medical waste disposal in PKU Muhammadiyah Hospital of Yogyakarta. There was a relationship between attitudes to the behavior of nurses in medical waste disposal in PKU Muhammadiyah Hospital of Yogyakarta.
Authors and Affiliations
Sudiharti Sudiharti, Solikhah Solikhah
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