THE EFFECT OF HEALTH EDUCATION ON THE LEVEL OF
COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT LIFE SUPPORT
BASE ON TRAFFIC ACCIDENT
PREGNANT WOMEN
Ranti
Miswa Adyra Damayanthi
Nira Meilani Prisila
Nisa Fitria
Keywords: Basic Life Support, Health Education
Abstact
Basic Life Support is an emergency measure to free the airway, help breathing and maintain blood circulation
without the use of assistive devices. Basic life support is usually provided by people around the victim who
will contact the nearest health worker. This help must be given quickly and precisely, because wrong handling
can result in bad, disability and even death to accident victims. The purpose of this study was to determine the
effect of health education on the level of public knowledge about basic life support in the Bogor City Region.
This type of research uses an Experiment or design, with a Pre-Experimental Design, namely One-Group
Pretest-Posttest Design. The population and sample in this study amounted to 30 respondents using the total
sampling technique. The research instrument was obtained by distributing questionnaires. Data analysis uses
the Prerequisite Test, namely the Normality Test, Homogeneity Test, and Hypothesis Test. The results of the
study were that before health education was carried out, the level of public knowledge about basic life support
was 7 (23.3%) respondents in the good category, 15 (50.0%) respondents in the sufficient category and 8
(26.7%) respondents in less category. After health education, there were 14 (46.7) respondents in the good
category, 12 (40.0%) respondents in the sufficient category and 4 (13.3%) respondents in the less category.
The results of the Parametric T-Test Hypothesis Test showed that there was a relationship with a p value of
0.002 ≤ 0.05. The conclusion in this study is that there is a relationship between the influence of health
education on the level of public knowledge about basic life support. This research is expected to provide an
overview and reference for the community to be able to pay attention to the problem of knowledge regarding
basic life support
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