Empowering Health Knowledge Among Santri Cadres at Sabilunnnajat Islamic Boarding School, Ciamis, West Java, Indonesia Raden Anita Indriyanti (a*), Rizki Perdana (b), Alvira Widiyanti (b)
Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Islam Bandung
Abstract
Health problems especially related to a clean and healthy lifestyle, such as the high incidence of infection, are a major concern in the Islamic boarding school environment. Various efforts have been made to reduce various health problems, one of which is by forming health santri cadres. A total of 20 selected health santri cadres were provided with materials regarding the 10 most common diseases that often arise in the Islamic boarding school environment. This research aim is to evaluate the mastery of health problem by assessing the level of knowledge through pre-test and post-test from 50 questions before and after giving the materials. The results showed the median value from post-test is 4 point higher than pre-test, and minimum score from post-test is higher 22 point than pre-test. There are a total of 6 topics with an increasing trend in the post-test (upper respiratory infections, pioderma, scabies, gastroenteritis, tinea cruris and conjuctivitis), with highest improvement in gastroenteritis and tinea cruris topics, but there are 3 topics that tend to decrease (asma bronkhiale, gastritis, eczema). The topic of puliptis seen from the total points has no change before and after the activity.The highest level of knowledge improvement are about gastroenteritis and tinea cruris disesase, while the less improvement are about eczema, pulpitis and conjunctivitis. This might be caused by familiarities of these diseases are more common in cadres daily life. It also shows the participation and involvement of local authorities has carried out the duties and functions to improve the capacity and level of knowledge of the santri cadres.
Keywords: Health knowledge, Santri Cadres, Sabilunnajat
