Relationship of Education, Knowledge and Behavior of Society and Scabies in Syamtalira Bayu Health Center Northern Aceh Regency

Abstract

Scabies is a skin disease caused by the investment and sensitization of Sarcoptes Scabiei mites variants of hominis and their products to the body. Scabies is often neglected because it is not life- threatening so the priority of treatment is low, but actually chronic and severe scabies can cause dangerous complications. WHO noted that approximately 130 million population in the world experienced scabies in 2018. While in Aceh in 2017, approximately 40.78% of pesantren adolescents suffered from scabies. This study aims to determine the relationship between education, knowledge and behavior related to the incidence of scabies in Syamtalira Bayu District, North Aceh Regency. This type of research is analytic descriptive using a cross sectional survey approach. The subjects of this study were the people of District Syamtalira Bayu. Determination of the study sample was conducted using purposive sampling based on inclusion and exclusion criteria, sample of 100 respondents was obtained at the Syamtalira Bayu Health Center. The results showed that there was a relationship between the behavior of changing clothes or prayer tools (p = 0.008), changing towels (p = 0,000), and sleeping coincide (p = 0,000) with the incidence of scabies in Syamtalira Bayu District and there was no relationship between education (p = 0.770) and knowledge (p = 0.564) in the Syamtalira Bayu District.