Proceedings of the 2nd Vocational Education International Conference, VEIC 2020, 27th August 2020, Semarang, Indonesia

Research Article

The Health Behavior of Students at Home Economics Program during Covid-19 Pandemic Era

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.27-8-2020.2305744,
        author={Asih  Kuswardinah and Dyah Nurani  Setyaningsih and Meddiati Fajri  Putri and Bambang  Triatma and Megadona  Pratiwi and Navari Wahyuning  Ramadhani},
        title={The Health Behavior of Students at Home Economics  Program during Covid-19 Pandemic Era},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd Vocational Education International Conference, VEIC 2020, 27th August 2020, Semarang, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={VEIC},
        year={2021},
        month={7},
        keywords={health behavior home economics program students covid-19 pandemic},
        doi={10.4108/eai.27-8-2020.2305744}
    }
    
  • Asih Kuswardinah
    Dyah Nurani Setyaningsih
    Meddiati Fajri Putri
    Bambang Triatma
    Megadona Pratiwi
    Navari Wahyuning Ramadhani
    Year: 2021
    The Health Behavior of Students at Home Economics Program during Covid-19 Pandemic Era
    VEIC
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.27-8-2020.2305744
Asih Kuswardinah1,*, Dyah Nurani Setyaningsih1, Meddiati Fajri Putri1, Bambang Triatma1, Megadona Pratiwi1, Navari Wahyuning Ramadhani1
  • 1: Home Economics Department of Universitas Negeri Semarang
*Contact email: asih@mail.unnes.ac.id

Abstract

One of the basic applications of health behavior for every individual is the knowledge that they have. The knowledge can be obtained through education, both formal, non-formal and informal education. Healthy lifestyle is a practice of clean and healthy habits in daily life both at home and outdoors. Most of students at UNNES especially Home Economics study program live in boarding houses, but during the pandemic most of the students returned to their homes. Family and environmental health is one of the courses in the Home Economics program which is expected to be the basis for the application of health behavior for students. This ex-post-facto research aims to explain about the health behavior of the of students during the pandemics of covid-19. The population of the study is the all students at the Home Economics program, Universitas Negeri Semarang. 89 students were sampled in this research. Those who were sampled have taken family and the environmental health. The results showed that students of Home Economics program implementing health behavior in the category of "high" with the percentage of 36% (32 people), the category "moderate" by 64% (57 people), and there are no students in the category of "low". Based on the results, it is recommended that the students of Home Economics program of UNNES continue to improve the implementation of health behavior, at home and the outside.