The Influence of Health Education with Peer Education Method on Students' Knowledge in Scabies Prevention at PPTQ Miftahul Khoir, Tasikmalaya City

Abstract

Scabies is a skin disease that is still widely found and is a health problem among the community, especially in Indonesia, one of the skin diseases that still often attacks the community with densely populated environmental conditions such as Islamic boarding schools and orphanages, in preventing it, it needs to be supported by sufficient knowledge in each individual. This study aims to determine the effect of Health Education with the peer education method on the knowledge of students in preventing scabies at PPTQ Miftahul Khoir, Tasikmalaya City. This research method uses a Quasi Experiment Design with a one group pre-test post-test approach, the sampling technique is the total sampling of all students who are the research sample. Data analysis was carried out using univariate and bivariate analysis, normality tests and paired samples T-tests. Based on the results of the study, a p-value of 0.000 <0.05 (significant) was obtained. There is an influence of Health Education with the peer education method and it can be applied as a means to prevent scabies.