Di dunia, malaria masih menjadi masalah kesehatan masyarakat terutamadi negara-negara tropis termasuk Indonesia. Di Jawa Tengah, kasus mala-ria terus memperlihatkan kecenderungan yang meningkat, salah satudaerah endemis malaria di Banyumas adalah Puskesmas II Sumpiuh.Berdasarkan survei pendahuluan masih banyak ditemukan perilaku berisikoyang dapat mengakibatkan terjadi malaria. Penelitian ini bertujuan menge-tahui persepsi masyarakat, kemungkinan aksi, dan informasi tentang mala-ria yang berpengaruh terhadap perilaku pencegahan malaria di PuskesmasSumpiuh II Banyumas. Penelitian observasional dengan pendekatan crosssectional ini dilakukan pada populasi kepala keluarga di Puskesmas IISumpiuh. Jumlah sampel sebanyak 95 kepala keluarga ditarik menggu-nakan metode simple random sampling. Pengumpulan data dilakukanmenggunakan kuesioner. Analisis data dilakukan menggunakan metodeanalisis univariat dengan statistik deskriptif, analisis bivariat dengan kaikuadrat, serta analisis multivariat dengan regresi logistik. Persepsi masya-rakat tentang kerentanan, persepsi tentang kegawatan, kemungkinan aksihambatan dan informasi tidak berhubungan dengan perilaku pencegahanmalaria, kecuali kemungkinan aksi manfaat berhubungan dengan perilakupencegahan malaria. Variabel yang berpengaruh pada perilaku pencega-han malaria adalah manfaat pencegahan malaria.Malaria has still been a threatening of health problem in the world, particu-larly in tropical countries including Indonesia. The malaria cases in CentralJava continued to increase. One of the Malaria endemic areas in Banyumasis Sumpiuh Primary Health Care II. Based on preliminary survey, It wasfound that there were risky behavior affecting the emerge of malaria. Thisstudy aimed to find out the community perception, action probabilility and in-formation about malaria which influenced to preventive behavior in PrimaryHealth Care II Sumpiuh.Cross sectional study was conducted to head ofhousehold in primary health care II Sumpiuh. The number of sample thatwas selected with simple random sampling method was 95 householdheads. Data analysis methods used in this study were univariate analysiswith descriptive statistic, bivariate with chi square and multivariate withlogistic regression. Community perceptions about vulnerability, seriousity ofdisease, obstruction and perception about information did not relate topreventive behavior of Malaria, except perception about the benefit relatedto preventive behavior.The influenced variable for malaria preventivebehavior was prevention benefit taken by community. |