PERCEPTION AND EARLY ACTIONS OF FAMILIES FOR FEVER SYMPTOMS ON THE OUTBREAK OF DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER IN PALARAN PUBLIC HEALTH CENTER SAMARINDA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25311/keskom.Vol6.Iss1.345

Authors

  • Muji Sutrisno Medical Faculty of Mulawarman University
  • Rahmat Bakhtiar Medical Faculty, Mulawarman University
  • Mahyati Sari Zulfa
  • Chrisna Wahyu Hardian
  • Adeline Arung Labi Medical Faculty, Mulawarman University
  • Opiansyah Opiansyah Head of Palaran Public Health Center, Samarinda

Keywords:

DHF
outbreak
perception
risk
early action

Abstract

Background: Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is an infectious disease because of dengue virus transmission through the bite of Aedes aegypti. Dengue cases in Palaran has increased sharply from January to November 2018. There were 218 morbidity of this number of cases with 1 mortality case. Meanwhile in 2017, the number of morbidity cases just 28 cases and no cases of death.

Objective : To know the perception and early action of family for fever symptoms on the outbreak of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever in Palaran Public Health Center Samarinda.

Method: Quantitative descriptive study with 102 respondents who obtained directly through perception questions and early actions of families against fever symptoms on an area of the outbreak of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Palaran Public Health Center Samarinda period from October to December 2018.

Results: Families with the initial perception of fever due to other diseases (77.5%), the initial perception no danger fever (63.7%), the initial act of family medicine came to the health center (30.47%)

Conclusion: Families perception and early action against fever symptoms on the outbreak events of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Palaran Public health center Samarinda period from October to December 2018 found family with the initial perception of another fever illness, initial perception of fever is not the danger, the initial act of family medicine at the most come to the health center.

 

Keywords: DHF, outbreak, perception, risk, early action

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Submitted

2019-02-07

Accepted

2020-04-16

Published

2020-05-28

How to Cite

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Sutrisno M, Bakhtiar R, Zulfa MS, Hardian CW, Labi AA, Opiansyah O. PERCEPTION AND EARLY ACTIONS OF FAMILIES FOR FEVER SYMPTOMS ON THE OUTBREAK OF DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER IN PALARAN PUBLIC HEALTH CENTER SAMARINDA. J Keskom [Internet]. 2020 May 28 [cited 2025 Apr. 20];6(1):37-43. Available from: https://jurnal.htp.ac.id/index.php/keskom/article/view/345

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