THE EFFECT OF SEMINARS ONLINE ON COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT NEW HABITS ADAPTATION IN CHILDREN DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

The current COVID-19 pandemic has not been resolved, however, various activities in adapting to new life have begun. Knowledge about Adaptation of New Habits to Children needs to be increased. This is very important in preventing the occurrence of new sources of infection. This study aims to determine the effect of online seminars on general public knowledge. This study used a quasi-experimental pre and post-test design. This research was conducted from August to September 2020 using the total sampling. Data collected with an online questionnaire by google form. Data analyzed using the SPSS 25.0 program using t-test dependent (alternative: Wilcoxon Test) with p-value < 0,05. This results showed that the majority of respondents had an average age of 27 years, most of them were female (67.6%), the last education was college (85.9%), students and private employees each with the same proportion (25.4 %), and most of them had a good level of prior knowledge about Adaptation of New Habits in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic (84.5%) before attending online seminars. There was a significant increase in knowledge about Adaptation of New Habits in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic before and after attending online seminars with p value = 0.032 (p value < 0.05). Seminars can increase health knowledge immediately after the end of the seminar due to health education interventions to the community delivered during the seminar. Online seminars are the right way to promote health in increasing public knowledge in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic.