HUBUNGAN PENGETAHUAN LANJUT USIA DENGAN SIKAP MEMELIHARA KEBERSIHAN DIRI PADA LANSIA DI KELURAHAN BANDUNGHARJO KECAMATAN TOROH KABUPATEN GROBOGAN

Abstract

Hygiene is a very important to prevent of a disease, including personal hygiene by elderly, the personal hygiene are body care, cleaning beds, cleanliness of hair, nails and their mouth or teeth. To get a good personal hygiene and truely requires a good knowledge and attitude for creating maintaining personal hygiene. The result pre research of elderly in the Bandungharjo Village shows there were many elderly who do not perform personal hygiene due to knowledge and attitudes of elderly. The objective of this research is to investigate the knowledge with personal hygiene attitude of elderly in Bandungharjo village Toroh Sub District of Grobogan. This research used a survey method with a cross-sectional approach. The samples of the research were 86 elderly and were taken by using purposive sampling technique. Collecting data was using knowledge and attitude questioner. The hypotheses of the research were verified by using a Chi Square test. The results of the research are as follows: 49 respondents (57%) had less knowledge, 33 respondents (38.4%) with fair knowledge and 4 respondents (4.7%) had good knowledge. The results of elderly attitude are 53 respondents (61.6%) with a bad attitude, and 33 respondents (38.4%) with fair attitude. The results of hypotheses test is x2 = 0,299 with p= 0.861 (p>0,05), it means there is no correlation of the knowledge with personal hygiene attitude of elderly in Bandungharjo village Toroh Sub District of Grobogan.