Structural Equation Model of Hazardous Medical Waste Management of Health Centers in Solok District Indonesia

Abstract

Discussing the Medical Hazardous Waste Management Model in the Solok Regency Health Office Work Area in 2023, the behavior of officers is very decisive in the management of medical hazardous waste which will be able to cause nosocomial infectious diseases in health workers, patients and visitors and the surrounding community because it contains disease agents in the form of infectious waste, toxic chemicals, and radioactive. This study is an analytical study with quantitative methods with the aim of obtaining information on the factors that influence the management of hazardous and toxic medical waste at health centers in Solok Regency. To test the research hypothesis, a one-way statistical t test was used with a t value of 1.96 with an alpha confidence degree of 5%.In the overall results, it can be seen that all variables in the path analysis, namely sorting, packaging and transportation, are able to influence hazardous waste management efforts in explaining the variance of each variable by 89.5% and there is a value of 10.5% explained by other factors. Based on the results of path analysis using the SEM method, it is found that sorting directly and indirectly affects the management of hazardous waste at the public health centers (public health center) with a total effect of: 2,331. The results of the path analysis using the SEM method found that storage indirectly affects the management of hazardous medical waste Public health center waste with a total effect (β) of: 1.896, packaging directly affects the management of hazardous waste health centers with a total effect (β) of: -0.185 and transportation directly affects the management of Public health center hazardous waste with a total effect (β) of : 0,590.