RELATIONSHIP OF KNOWLEDGE AND SELF-REGULATION WITH NURSES’ PREPAREDNESS FACING SMOKE DISASTER IN PONTIANAK CITY

Abstract

Smoke haze disaster that occurred in 2015 due to forest and land fire caused suffering to about 503,874 people with acute respiratory infection (ARI) and caused death of 26 people and huge economic losses that reached 200 trillion and 43 million people were exposed to smoke haze. The research purposes in this study was to analyze the correlation of knowledge and self-regulation against the nurse’ preparedness in community health center in facing smoke haze disaster in Pontianak. The method used was analytical survey with cross sectional approach with total respondents of 90 nurses in health center that was collected by simple random sampling. Nurses’ preparedness was measured by using Emergency Preparedness Information Questionnaire. The test result of spearman ranks explained the correlation between knowledge (p=0.036), but there was no correlation of self-regulation (p=0.074) with the nurses’ preparedness in community health center in facing smoke haze disasters in Pontianak. Analysis of logistic regression explained that knowledge with calculated value of Exp (B=3.378) was the most related variable against the nurses’ preparedness in health center compared with self-regulation. Therefore from the study it was evident that knowledge of nurses about the disaster was substantial in aspect to management process of disaster in both preparedness phase and response phase.