Analysis of nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and behavior toward Hepatitis prevention and transmission in Jabodetabek Regional Hospitals

Lumbanbatu, Adventus M.R. and Sitorus, Erita and Damanik, Sri Melfa (2024) Analysis of nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and behavior toward Hepatitis prevention and transmission in Jabodetabek Regional Hospitals. International Journal of Medical and Health Research, 10 (3). pp. 5-11. ISSN 24549142

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Abstract

Hepatitis is an infectious disease with a fairly high incidence rate in society. This problem can be reduced by increasing health education activities that all parties, including nurses, can carry out. Nurses are expected to be able to provide information about hepatitis through health education to patients in hospitals to suppress transmission of the disease. This research aims to analyze nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and behavior in providing health education to Hepatitis patients regarding the prevention and transmission of Hepatitis at the Jabodetabek Regional Hospital. This research uses a descriptive-analytical design with a cross-sectional approach with quantitative methods. This study showed that 52.3% of respondents had poor knowledge, and 47.7% had good knowledge about providing education on the prevention and transmission of Hepatitis to patients at Jabodetabek regional hospitals. There is a significant relationship between experience and nurses' knowledge about Hepatitis health education with a P value of 0.000 (P<0.05), and there is no significant relationship between education and knowledge, education and nurses' attitudes, education and nurses' behavior, experience and nurses' attitudes and Experience with nurses' behavior regarding preventive health education and transmission of Hepatitis in patients at Jabodetabek regional hospitals. Providing health education to patients is one of the roles of nurses that must be carried out to increase patient satisfaction with the nursing care provided. Adequate compliance and knowledge of nurses can improve implementation in providing health education for Hepatitis patients regarding the prevention and transmission of the disease. Keywords: Nurses, health education, Hepatitis patients

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