Hubungan pengetahuan dan sikap dengan kesiapsiagaan menghadapi risiko gempa bumi dan tsunami pada siswa SMA

Abstract

Earthquake and tsunami have high risk level in Padang State that predict earthquake 8.9 Richter of Mentawai Megatrust. Padang State Senior High School 2 located in Red Zone of earthquake and tsunami and also close with Banda Bakali River. There are still found some students whose have not expressed enough knowledge related to earthquake and tsunami preparedness and not ready if disaster occur. This study aims to determine the relationship of knowledge and attitude with preparedness to confront earthquake and tsunami risk on students at Padang State Senior High School 2. Research design used analytics descriptive with cross sectional study approach to 280 respondents. The instrument of research consisted of 4 parts of questionnaire, which are demographics data, knowledge, attitude, and preparedness. Research analysis used a comparative test by using software computer. The results of this study showed that 55.4% had high knowledge, 53.2% good attitudes, and 66.1% moderate preparedness. In this result found that significant relationship between knowledge and preparedness (p = 0.001) and significant relationship between attitude and preparedness with significance value (p = 0.000). Recommended to school to improve learning which more applicable for health promotion especially on earthquake and tsunami disasters that has been integrated in curriculum subject and held disasters simulations earlier especially for new students.