HUBUNGAN PENGETAHUAN TENTANG BAHAYA PESTISIDA, PENDIDIKAN DAN SIKAP DENGAN PRAKTIK PENGGUNAAN ALAT PELINDUNG DIRI (APD) PADA PETANI BAWANG MERAH
Abstract: Pesticides can cause
negative or positive to the human health and the environment. The using
pesticides will give negative effects to the human health and the environment
either directly or indirectly. Red onion farmer is a profession whose high risk
the using of pesticides, but most of them are rarely applied self protection.
In order to protect human and environment from negative effects, the effort of
complete self protection (APD) is very needed. Objective: Know the correlation
of knowledge, education, attitude with practice of the use self protection
(APD) on onion farmers. Methods: The typeof research used is observational
analytic with the approach Cross sectional freevariables is the knowledge about
the dangers of pesticides, education, attitude and practice is variable use of
self protection (APD). The sample of this research is citizen who worked as
farmers with simple random sampling technique with a large sample of 41
respondents. Using the Chi-square analysis. Results: Based on 41 respondents,
24 (58.5%) knowledgeable about the dangers of pesticides. Education
respondents, 39 (95.2%) of respondents is low educated. There are 22
respondents (53.7%) does not support the use of the personal protection
attitude of complete. The practice of the use self protection (APD), 39
reponden (95,1%) not use of complete self protection (APD). Conclusion: There
is no correlation between knowledge about the dangers of pesticides with the
practice of the use of personal protection (p=0.512), there is no correlation
between education with the practice of the use of personal protection
(p=1.000), there is no correlation between attitude with practice of the use of
personal protection (p=1.000).
Keywords: knowledge danger of
pesticides, education, attitude, self protection (APD)
Penulis: Wiwi Yuliyana,
Wulandari Meikawati
Kode Jurnal: jpkesmasdd150716
