Dukungan Tenaga Kesehatan Dalam Pelaksanaan Pekan Imunisasi Nasional Di Puskesmas Simpang Empat Kabupaten Karo

Abstract

Information is the data that have been processed into a form which is significant for its receivers and is useful for decision making in the present or future time. Support is providing something to meet other people’s needs. PIN (Indonesia National Immunization Week) is a polio vaccination activity that is simultaneously conducted throughout Indonesia. This is a correlational descriptive research with cross-sectional design on a single group with determined incidence or prevalence. The objective of the results was to discover the correlation between information giving and health personnel’s support in the implementation of PIN at Puskesmas Simpang Empat, Karo Regency, in 2019. The samples were taken by employing total sampling technique i.e. 31 respondents. The results of this research demonstrated that information giving on the implementation of PIN at Puskesmas Simpang Empat, Karo Regency in average was well with 48.4%, the support from health personnel was high with 67.7%, and the correlation between both gained p-value=0,005, indicating that both variables were significantly correlated