Youth Knowledge on the Health Protocols during Covid-19 Pandemic
Yani Triyani, Heni Muflihah, Winni Maharani, Mirasari Putri, Titik Respati

Faculty of Medicine UNISBA

Abstract

Buah Batu District is the sub-district with the second-highest Covid-19 incidence rate in Bandung City for the December 2020. Many factors affect the high incidence of Covid-19, the Unisba FK service team, in collaboration with the Indonesian Youth National Committee (KNPI), intends to hold activities to help overcome problems in the Buahbatu sub-district by holding PHBS socialization in the Covid-19 pandemic era and analyzing the level of knowledge of youth in the Buahbatu sub-district regarding the implementation of medical protocols in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic. PHBS socialization was carried out on March 18, 2021. Before implementing the socialization, participants were given a questionnaire about the causes, modes of transmission, and prevention methods-furthermore, the practice of implementing health protocols in the era of the covid-19 pandemic. Data obtained from the number of pre-test participants were 117 people. Data on the number of respondents who answered correctly for each question were 24.5%&#65293-100%. In this case, many factors affect the degree of public knowledge, the youth in the Buahbatu sub-district. It can be concluded that the level of youth^s knowledge about the correct procedures for using masks needs to be increased.

Keywords: medical protocols in the era of the Covid-19, Buah Batu, KNPI

Topic: Media, Journalism, and Information