Effect of Counseling Using Social Capital Implementation on Container Index (CI) of Aedes aegypti Larvae

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) still becomes one of community health problems in Indonesia, until now it cannot be overcome and become highest dengue fever case in the world. Even it can be found almost in every province in Indonesia. Mosquito nest eradication program (PSN) that has been conducted, and previous research results is not sufficient to overcome DHF and it cannot improve community participation in PSN program. In order to make it continuous, it is needed to do community social capital mapping before conducting health promotion. The research aims to determine the effect of counseling using social capital implementation on Container Indeks (CI) of Aedes aegypti larvae in Panggungharjo, Sewon, Bantul. The research used quasi experiment with pre and post with control design. It used 60 families as control group and 60 families as the treatment group. The analysis method used was independent t-test. The research results showed that counseling using social capital implementation and community trust to community leaders as the counselor, in this case was the head of the neighborhood had an influence to Container Indeks (CI) of Aedes aegypti larvae in Panggungharjo, Sewon, Bantul (p,0.001). It is suggested that counseling using social capital implementation, especially from people that are trusted by the community can be implemented in PSN program. It can become one of the models in preventing DHF to complete health promotion efforts that have been conducted all this time.