The Relationship between Perception of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever and Prevention Behaviour in Sorogenen 2 Purwomartani Kalasan Sleman Yogyakarta

Abstract

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is a disease found in most tropical and subtropical regions. The natural hosts of DHF are humans. The agent is a dengue virus that belongs to the family Flaviridae and the genus Flavivirus. Around 2.5 billion people in the world are at risk of contact with dengue. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that around 50 million people worldwide are infected with dengue virus each year, with around 400.000 cases of DHF. People tend to respond to DHF is not a serious problem and is considered trivial, which causes the behavior to control the actions of DHF is still lacking. Prevention of DHF is to prevent the bite of Aedes mosquitoes that contain dengue virus to humans by maintaining environmental hygiene so as not to become a medium of suppression of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. This study aims to determine the relationship of perceptions about DHF and Prevention of DHF behavior in Sorogenen 2 Purwomartani Kalasan Sleman Yogyakarta. We conducted quantitative research with an observational analytic design using crosssectional approach. This research was conducted at Sorogenen 2 Purwomartani Kalasan Sleman, Yogyakarta with a sample of 87 respondents chosen with simple random sampling technique. As many as 71 (81.6%) respondent had a good perception of DHF and 16 (18.4%) respondents had a wrong perception of DHF. A total of 46 (52.9%) respondents had good behavior, and 41 (47.1%) respondents had good behavior towards prevention of DHF. It was a relationship between perceptions of DHF and prevention behavior (PR=1.84; CI=1.23 – 2.73; p=0.028). People who had poor perceptions of DHF more likely had lack behavior against DHF prevention. Perception of DHF increases the risk of the lack behavour of DHF prevention in Sorogenen 2 Purwomartani Kalasan Sleman Yogyakarta. Keywords—DHF, perception, behavior