PENGETAHUAN DAN SIKAP PENDERITA MALARIA DI WILAYAH KERJA PUSKESMAS MUARO KUMPEH KABUPATEN MUARO JAMBI

Backgroud : Malaria is a disease that can be acute or chronic, caused by the Protozoa Plasmodium genus is characterized by fever, anemia and splenomagali. The cause of malaria is plasmodium infection, which in addition to infecting humans also infect animals such as groups of birds, reptiles and mammals. Including the genus plasmodium of plasmodidae family. Plasmodium as the cause of malaria consists of four species, namely Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium malariae, and Plasmodium ovale. Malaria also involves the intermediate host, namely humans and other vertebrae, and the definitive host, the Anopheles mosquito. Method : This research uses analytic methods to the design crossecsional to determine the relationship between the independent variables with the dependent variable, number of samples in this study were 121 respondents. Result : Results showed that of 121 respondents who have a positive attitude 68 (55.2%) and who have negative attitudes of 53 (43.8%) of malaria. There is a relationship between attitudes (p-value 0.504), with OR = 1.482. In order to improve health promotion programs by providing counseling, education about prevention of malaria, is expected to increase the knowledge and attitudes about the incidence of malaria.