Pengaruh Pendidikan Kesehatan tentang Pencegahan Jatuh terhadap Tingkat Pengetahuan dan Sikap Lansia

Abstract

Physical changes in the elderly can cause imbalance, causing the risk of falling. One of the efforts to prevent falls is to provide education through health education with the hope that the elderly can find out about efforts to prevent falls. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of health education about fall prevention on the level of knowledge and attitude of the elderly.This research is pre-experimental with a one group pretest-posttest design approach. This research is preexperimental with a one group pretest posttest design approach. The population was all elderly people who were active in the integrated service post as many as 107 people. The sampling technique used purposive sampling so that the number of samples was 15 respondents. The data collection instrument used a questionnaire sheet. This research was conducted at the Integrated Service Post of Gampong Ie Masen Ulee Kareng, Banda Aceh City on May 29, 2024. The research results show that there is a difference in the level of knowledge before and after being given health education about fall prevention (p-value = 0.000). Then there is a difference in attitude before and after being given health education about fall prevention (p-value = 0.001). The conclusion of this study is that there is an effect of health education about fall prevention on the knowledge and attitudes of the elderly at the integrated service post of Gampong Ie Masen Ulee Kareng, Banda Aceh City.