ANALYSIS OF EFFECT STRATEGIES IN IMPROVING WATER QUALITY DIARRHEA PREVENTION ON HILIBALA HEALTH CENTER, SOUTH NIAS DISTRICT

ERISMAN HONDRO (2024) ANALYSIS OF EFFECT STRATEGIES IN IMPROVING WATER QUALITY DIARRHEA PREVENTION ON HILIBALA HEALTH CENTER, SOUTH NIAS DISTRICT , TESIS, UNIVERSITAS PRIMA INDONESIA

ABSTRAK

Hilibala Community Health Center is the largest contributor to diarrhea cases, namely 662 cases. One of the causes is poor water quality. Therefore, this research aims to design a health promotion strategy to improve water quality as an effort to prevent diarrhea at the Hilibala Community Health Center, South Nias Regency. The location of this research was carried out in the working area of the Hilibala Community Health Center, South Nias Regency. The research will start from June-August 2023. The sample in this study was 99 families and was determined using a purposive sampling formula. Data were analyzed univariate, bivariate and multivariate. The results of the research show that there is an influence of advocacy, partnership and community empowerment on the role of families in improving water quality as an effort to prevent diarrhea at the Hilibala Community Health Center, South Nias Regency, with the results of statistical tests obtaining a significant p value for each, namely 0.000 < 0.05. The variable that influences this is the empowerment variable with a p value of 0.000, OR = 9.333 (95% CI = 3.085). The conclusion in this research is that the right strategy is to increase empowerment as a health promotion strategy in improving water quality as an effort to prevent diarrhea at the Hilibala Community Health Center, South Nias Regency. Suggestions for community health centers are to carry out situation analysis, outreach, cadre formation and intervention, and evaluation. The results of community empowerment activities with character building have a good impact, namely that the majority of people have increased understanding. The quality of life of the community will also improve as seen from the reduced number of diarrhea incidents. 

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