The Correlation of Education about Cough Etiquette and the Knowledge of Security Officers and Cleaning Service Officers

Abstract

Background: Nosocomial infection is an infection that patients get when they are hospitalized. To minimize the risk of infection in hospitals, it is necessary to apply standard precautions. One of which is to follow the conduct of cough etiquette.

Objective: This research is aimed to analyze the effectiveness of education of cough etiquette module to increase the knowledge about cough etiquette on security and cleaning service officers in hospital.

Material and method: This study is a quasi-experiments with pretest and posttest control group design. The samples of this study were taken by using purposive sampling with 24 respondents in the experiment group and 27 respondents in the control group. The data was analyzed by using Wilcoxon and Independent sample T test. Meanwhile, the data was collected by using a questionnaire.

Results: The result in this study shows that in the control group, the value of knowledge is p = 0.074 (p > 0.05). In experiment group, the value of knowledge is p = 0.357 (p > 0.05). The result of the control group and the group is p = 0.051 (p > 0.05). The result shows that in the experiment group and in the control group, the comparison between the control and experiment group does not show a significant difference.

Conclusion: The conclusion of this study is that there is no correlation between knowledge of cough etiquette before and after education.

International Journal of Human and Health Sciences Vol. 03 No. 01 January’19. Page : 23-25