The 4th International Conference on Nursing

Author :

Lanawati

Affiliation :

Master of Nursing Program, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia

Abstract :

Background In health care seeking behavior, communities or community members who have the the disease and not feel pain (disease but no illness) are certainly not do anything against the disease. But when they were attacked by the disease and also feel the pain. Then there will be various kinds of behavior and efforts. Therefore, researchers interested in studying about description of behavior society seeking assistance in health at the Lalap village, Patangkep Tutui district, East Barito. Methods This research is an deskriftip study with quantitative analysis. This research takes the population of people from Lalap villiage, which is taken 138 samples use simple random sampling. This research is take place at Lalap village in July 2012. Variabel in this research is single variabel: People behavior in seeking health assistance to sub variables of knowledge, attitudes, and actions. The instrument use questionare with Likert & Guttman scale. It was 15 item statements about knowledge, 6 statements about attitude and 7 item statement of the action. The researcher had validitation and reliability test. Results The results of the study found that community knowledge about seeking health assistance categorized well (89,9%), positive attitudes (83,3%) and good behavior (60,1%). Conclusion From the study concluded that the description of community behavior in seeking health assistance in the Lalap village, Patangkep Tutui district, East Barito year 2012 in good category.

Keywords :

Behavior society; Health assistance