PENGARUH PEMBERIAN HEALTH EDUCATION TENTANG PENCEGAHANINFEKSI NOSOKOMIAL TERHADAP PENGETAHUAN KELUARGA PASIENDI RUANG ALAMANDA RSUD NGANJUK

Introduction:The lack of knowledge of patient families waiting in the treatment room on prevention of nosocomial infections causes increasing the risk of infection.Hospitals need to provide health education to improve patient families' knowledge.The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of giving health education about prevention of nosocomial infection to patient families' knowledge in Alamanda Room of RSUD Nganjuk.Methods:The design of this research is pre experiment with Pre-Post Test Design approach.The population in this study is the entire family of patients in the Alamanda Room Nganjuk Hospital during 27 th November until 7 th Desember 2017.The sample was taken by accidental sampling technique and obtained by 30 respondents.Independent variables in the study are health education and the dependent variable is the patient families' knowledge about prevention of nosocomial infection.Data were collected by questionnaire and then analyzed data with Wilcoxon test with α = 0,05.Results:The results showed that the knowledge of respondents prior to the provision of health education on the prevention of nosocomial infection, most of which is good, as many as 21 respondents (70%).Knowledge of respondents after giving health education about prevention of nosocomial infection, mostly good, that is 25 respondents (83%).Wilcoxon test produces p-value = 0,020 (p-value ≤ α) so that hypothesis (Ha) is accepted.Conslusions:There is influence of giving health education about prevention of nosokomial infection to patient families' knowledge in Ruang Alamanda Nganjuk Hospital.The provision of health education on the prevention of nosocomial infections has proven to be very important for patient families who are waiting in the hospital.Increased knowledge can affect the attitude and actions of the patient families, so that cases of nosocomial infections can be minimized.

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