Hubungan Antara Pengetahuan Dan Sikap Dengan Tindakan Petugas Kesehatan Dalam Upaya Pengelolaan Sampah Medis Di Puskesmas Dawan II Tahun 2021

Abstract The Public Health is a functional organization unit that organizes health efforts that are comprehensive and integrated, evenly accepted and affordable by the community. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between knowledge and attitudes of health workers and actions in efforts to manage medical waste at Dawan II Public Health Center in 2021. This research is a type of quantitative research with a cross sectional approach with a population of all health workers totaling 63 people with the instruments used in the form of questionnaires and observation sheets. The analysis was carried out by univariate and bivariate with the Chi-square test. Based on hypothesis testing, it is known that the knowledge of health workers in efforts to manage medical waste at the health center has a P-Value = 0.001 significance p = 0.05. Meanwhile, the attitude of health workers in the efforts to manage medical waste at the health centers has a P-Value = 0.001 significance p = 0.05. So it can be concluded that there is a relationship between knowledge and attitudes with the actions of health workers in efforts to manage medical waste at Dawan II Public Health Center in 2021. Keywords: Knowledge, Attitude, Medical Waste Management