Pengaruh Kepercayaan, Pengetahuan dan Sikap Terhadap Akses Jamban Di Perkotaan

Abstrak

The difficult access of urban healthy latrines is influenced by population
density, limitation of infrastructure and high mobility. Cultural factors become
one of the keys in influencing people behavior to access healthy latrines. The
aim this research was to explore the cultural factors influencing the people to
access the healthy latrine. The method used was a retrospective quantitative
approach with cross sectional analytical method (cross sectional) in order to
know the cultural factors that influence people behaviour in using healthy
latrines. The research found that the cultural factors related to access of
healthy latrines include belief on the taboo, gender, beliefs and differences of
each generation. The significant influential factors are trust, knowledge and
attitude. While other factors simultaneously affect the citizen in behaving
toward using healthy latrines. The conclusion was that the behaviour in
accessing healthy latrines is created by individual’s knowledge, attitudes and
actions. The behaviour will be established and successful if the cultural factor
approach is carried out simultaneously. The individual’s concept about
something is the impact of the individual’s way of thinking about something
based on the culture containing non-individual but public meaning. So, when
the system of meaning belongs to the collective society, society can have the
same pattern of behaviour. The cultural factors can serve as a basis for
improving urban residents' access to healthy latrines.