ANALYSIS CORRELATION SOCIODEMOGRAPHICS ON THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF SOCIETY OF JAVA IN EFFORTS TO CONTROL THE COVID-19 OUTBREAKS

Abstract

Background: Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been declared as a pandemic throughout the world, including in Indonesia, particularly in Java with the number of casesalways increasing both confirmed and death cases. Objective: This study aims to identify the knowledge and attitudes of the people of Java Island related to socio-demographic characteristics (age, gender, education, and employment status) in efforts to control Covid-19.Methods: The design cross-sectional with 1,579 participants were selected by simple randomsampling. Collecting data using a questionnaire assisted by the google form and shared topotential participants through social networking apps. The data were analyzed using the chisquare and Pearson's correlation test. Results: There are 1,579 respondents who participated,and predominantly were youths (57%), female (76%), bachelor (47.1%), and the Student (41%).A total of 1,008 respondents (64%) have good knowledge and 1,251 respondents (79%) have apositive attitude. The results of the test chi-square on the knowledge variable showed that there

was a relationship between age (p = 0.023) and education (p = 0.021), while gender (p = 0.359)and work status (p = 0.308) had no relationship. In the attitude variable, the results of the testchi-square showed that the p-value between age (p= 0.927), gender (p= 0.072), education (p=

0.140), and work status (p= 0.119) had no relationship, but the knowledge and attitude turn outthat there is a value of p = 0.000 <0.05 with a confidence interval of 95%. These results indicate

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relationship between knowledge and attitudes towards efforts to control COVID-19.Conclusion: The majority of people on the island of Java are well-informed and have a positive attitude in efforts to control COVID-19. Further research needs to be carried out analysis relatedto government regulatory policies, information from various media with valid sources to reduce information bias so that public knowledge will be better which has an impact on positive attitudes to break the chain of the spread of Covid-19.