Pengetahuan, Sikap Dan Perilaku Masyarakat Terhadap Malaria Di Daerah Non Endemis, Di Kabupaten Purworejo, Jawa Tengah

Malaria control program will not successful without a community participation, and involvement of the inter-sector through partnership. Information and understanding the Study of Knowledge, Attitudeand Practice (KAP) of the community are very important to develop and improve the community participation as well as to develop the partnership in malaria control. The study was carried out in three communes in Purworejo district, on sub-district non-malaria endemic area. The data were collected by structures questionnaire, the sample size of each commune was 100 respondents, and the respondents are household. The study showed that: knowledge of household to malaria is quite good (97%); most of them knew malaria symptom (87,9%), causal (94,3%), relapses (94%), treatment (99%), malaria transmissionand mosquito as malaria vector (94%). However, some of them are confused with dengue haemorrhagic fever vector (33%). The community attitude in the malaria control program showed a positive, they say malaria is a danger disease and should be prevented and control (91%), they encourage others to participation malaria control. Their practise in the malaria control also quite positive, when their family member hadhigh fever due to malaria they brought the family member to a doctor and or other health facilities (68,8%), wearing the protected clothes when going out and stay out-door during night time (93,3%). Additionally to reduce the risk from the mosquito biting, they sleep under mosquito net, (70%), burning mosquito coil (26%). However, some respondents still do not showed a good practices (31,1%), some are going to the traditional healer (4%), low compliance in taking a medicine, and low practices in the source reduction or mosquito habitat clearance. Many are relay on the government support or subsidize through health sector