PENGARUH PENDIDIKAN KESEHATAN TENTANG AIR BERSIH TERHADAP PERUBAHAN PENGETAHUAN DAN PERILAKU MASYARAKAT DALAM MENGGUNAKAN AIR BERSIH UNTUK MENCUCI PAKAIAN DI DESA CANGKRING REMBANG KECAMATAN KARANGANYAR KABUPATEN DEMAK

Abstract

Latar Belakang; Health education is an activity to delivevr health messages either to individuals or groups. The purpose is to change the knowledge, attitudes and behavior of a person into a better state. The behavior of healthy life can be seen by doing a good habits and avoiding the bad and unhealthy habits.

Tujuan: To know the effect of clean water’s education to change community’s knowledge and behavior in using clean water for washing clothes in Cangkring Rembang village, Karanganyar district, regency of demak

Metode: The research design thatwas used in this study was pre-experiment with one group pre posttest design appoach with wilcoxon test

Hasil: It shows that the villagers has bad behavior in using water, but after the heatlh education, they change their behavior into the good one (with p value 0,000). Therefore, the health education brings changes to the villager, especially in Cangkring Rembang Village, Karanganyar Districk, Demak regency.

Kesimpulan: From the result above, it can be concluded that there is an effect of clean water’s education to change community’s knowledge and behavior in using clean water for washing clothes in cangkring rembang village, karanganyar district, regency of demak.

Keyword: Health education, Clean water, knowledge and Behavior Changes