The Effect of Establishing Village Malaria Cadres on the Participation of Family Head in Malaria Prevention Effort in Bastiong Karance Kelurahan South Ternate City

Abstract

Malaria is an infectious disease caused by Plasmodium parasites that live and reproduce in human red blood cells and are naturally transmitted through the bite of female Anopheles mosquitoes (Depkes RI, 2006). Malaria is one of the infectious diseases that is a major public health problem in the world, including Indonesia. Malaria has become a global concern because high malaria cases have a broad impact on the quality of life and the economy and even threatens the safety of human life. In North Maluku Province, malaria is still a public health problem, from 2014 to 2019 malaria cases fell significantly from 4,451 cases to 557 cases in North Maluku Province. This study uses a True Experimental Design approach using a pretest and posttest control group design, the population in this study is pregnant women and infants who are a sick-prone group totaling 132 family heads with sampling techniques carried out using experimental formulas or randomly, data analysis includes Univariate and Bivariate analysis. The statistical test used is the T test because the basic scale is only Ordinal categorical to see the difference between the control and treatment groups, with the degree of significance (significant level) used is {α = 0.05 the population in this study were pregnant women and infants who were a sick-prone group totaling 132 family heads with sampling techniques carried out using experimental formulas or randomly, data analysis included univariate and bivariate analysis. The statistical test used is the T test because the basic scale is only Ordinal categorical to see the difference between the control and treatment groups, with the degree of significance (significant level) used is {α = 0.05 the population in this study were pregnant women and infants who were a sick-prone group totaling 132 family heads with sampling techniques carried out using experimental formulas or randomly, data analysis included univariate and bivariate analysis. The statistical test used is the T test because the basic scale is only Ordinal categorical to see the difference between the control and treatment groups, with the degree of significance (significant level) used is {α = 0.05}Statistical test results show that there is only one variable that has a significant value, namely the knowledge variable on malaria prevention in the intervention group with a significance value of 0.050 < .