Factors related to compliance of Covid-19 health protocols among restaurant employees, Mandonga District, Kendari City, Indonesia
Department of Public Health, Halu Oleo University, Kendari, South-east Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Review Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2023, 18(01), 174–180
Publication history:
Received on 18 February 2023; revised on 05 April 2023; accepted on 07 April 2023
Abstract:
The restaurant is one of the places that was given a permit to continue to run its business activities in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Restaurant employees can act as spreaders or contracting diseases, this can be through contact between food brought by employees and when interacting with visiting consumers. Therefore, it is important to implement health protocols as an effort to prevent the transmission of Covid-19. The general purpose of this study was to determine the factors related to compliance with the Covid-19 health protocol in restaurant employees, Mandonga District, Kendari City. This study was an analytical study with a cross sectional. The sample in this study amounted to 120 people who were taken using the technique of incidental sampling. Statistical test used test Chi-square with independent variables namely knowledge, education, belief, availability of infrastructure, and economic status with measuring tools in the form of questionnaire sheets and interview methods. The results showed that 106 respondents (88.3%) did not comply with the Covid-19 health protocol and 14 (11.7%) complied with the Covid-19 health protocol. Knowledge variable (p-value =0.000), education (p-value = 0.038), confidence (p-value =0.000), the availability of infrastructure (p-value =0.000) indicates that there was a relationship with Covid-19 health protocol compliance, while the economic status variable (p-value =0.196) showed that there was no relationship with Covid-19 health protocol compliance. The conclusion of the study showed that the variables of knowledge, education, belief, availability of infrastructure have a relationship with Covid-19 health protocol compliance, while the economic status variable has no relationship.
Keywords:
Covid-19; Compliance ; Knowledge; Restaurant Employee; Covid-19 Health Protocol
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