# GENDER, REGION, AND BACKGROUND-RELATED FACTORS INFLUENCING ADOLESCENT DISEASE-PREVENTION BEHAVIOR DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN INDONESIA
> Seniwati T.

URL kanonis: https://discover.unhas.ac.id/publications/gender-region-and-background-related-factors-influencing-adolescent-disease-prev
Jurnal / Konferensi: Jurnal Keperawatan Soedirman
Tahun terbit: 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20884/1.JKS.2022.17.3.6185
ISSN: 19076673
Kuartil SJR: Q4
Citations: 1

## Authors
- Seniwati T.

## Abstract
Raising awareness about disease prevention behavior in adolescents is an effective measure for reducing the transmission of COVID-19. This study aimed to examine adolescent disease-prevention behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia and identify its associations with gender, region, and background-related factors. This was a cross-sectional study that involved 492 respondents between the ages of 12 to 18 years and currently attending junior high school or senior high school. The Mann–Whitney U test and Kruskal–Wallis H test was used. The findings indicated that the mean age of the respondents was 15.77 (SD = 1.42), the majority of the respondents were girls (76.4%), and most were living in Eastern Indonesia (81.5%). Girls placed a significantly higher effort for prevention than boys for self-precaution, social distancing, and following coughing and sneezing etiquette, with mean (SD) values of 21.48 (SD = 2.79), 20.40 (SD = 2.89), and 17.73 (SD = 2.44), respectively. Gender and region also had significant correlations with reported self-protection, social distancing, and self-immunity enhancement behavior (p< 0.05). It can be concluded that COVID-19-prevention measures practiced by adolescents differ according to gender, region, education level, both parents’ education level, and the father’s occupation.

## Keywords
- Pandemic
- Etiquette
- Social distance
- Demography
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
- Psychology
- Cross-sectional study
- Test (biology)
- Disease
- Medicine
- Gerontology
- Infectious disease (medical specialty)
- Paleontology
- Pathology
- Political science
- Law
- Sociology
- Biology

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Sumber: Discover Unhas — RIMS Universitas Hasanuddin.
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