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Abstract

COVID-19 has become a frightening pandemic and has spread throughout the
world with an unprecedentedly high death rate. Community compliance with
government appeals must be accompanied by knowledge, attitudes, and practices
in dealing with this epidemic. This study aims to investigate the Knowledge,
Attitude, and Practice of Kolaka residents against the COVID-19 outbreak. This
research is descriptive-analytic with a Cross-Sectional approach. The sample used
in this study were 1,010 respondents aged 17 to 65 years, having gmail and y-
mail accounts, mastering the internet became the criteria for respondent
inclusion in this study. The questionnaire used was the adoption of previous
studies and modified according to conditions. Data were analyzed bivariate using
the Chi-Square test with standard p-value<0.05. The results obtained showed that
the Kolaka community had good knowledge (49.6%), a confident attitude of
controlling the plague (70.4%), and had a high level of vigilance (79.6%) towards
COVID-19. There is a relationship between knowledge with practice p-
value=0.000, while attitude has no relationship with practice with p-value=0.862.
The massive dissemination of information through existing media has greatly
helped the community increase their knowledge of COVID-19, which will further
support the formation of a confident attitude to control this disease and increase
vigilance in their daily life practices during this pandemic.

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468-476

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

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DOI

10.30597/mkmi.v16i4.10431

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