DESCRIPTION OF COVID-19 PREVENTION BEHAVIOR FOR GARBAGE COLLECTOR IN EAST CIPUTAT DISTRICT, SOUTH TANGERANG 2021 Achmad Zulfikar Badarudin Litiloly and Dewi Utami Iriani*
State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah
Abstract
Introduction: The intensive and massive implementation of health protocols has an impact on increasing medical waste in the form of masks and gloves. That way, garbage collector are one of the high risk populations who are vulnerable to be infected by Covid-19. The mobility and demographic background factors make them often forgotten from the intervention programs related to health protocols. Objective: To describe Covid-19 prevention behaviour of garbage collector in waste management during the covid-19 pandemic. Methods: Descriptive observational research with cross sectional study design was conducted. The population is garbage collector group in Sub-District Pisangan, South Tangerang. The study sample amounted to 53 garbage collector selected by incidental sampling from January to December 2021. Descriptive data analysis was performed. Results: All of respondents did not keep their distance from colleagues or community members when working, 81.1% of respondents did not use any kind of personal protective equipment (PPE), and 18.9% of respondents who used PPE in any kind of masks did not change their PPE at work, 81.1% of respondents washed their hands with soap and 96.2% of respondents changed clothes after work. Suggestion: Public health centre should educate and promote the health protocol activities for garbage collector related to the behaviour of Covid-19 prevention. In addition, the public health centre shall facilitate hand sanitizers and disinfectants as well as masks for garbage collector.
