GAMBARAN TINGKAT PENGETAHUAN FIVE MOMENT HAND HYGIENE DALAM PENCEGAHAN COVID-19 PADA MAHASISWA PROFESI KEDOKTERAN GIGI UMY ANGKATAN 2020

Background : T he spread of the C O V ID -19 virus at the end D ecem ber 2019 caused health problem s for m any countries in the w orld. A ccording to the C D C (C enter for Disease Control) dental care has a high risk of exposure to the virus through body fluids, dental equipment, and contaminated environmental surfaces. Infection prevention and control measures in dental profession students need to be considered to m inim ize virus transm ission. Five m om ent hand hygiene is one of the in fectio n p reven tio n a n d co n tro l m ea su res. K n o w led g e o f five m o m en t h a n d h yg ien e affects the implementation of five moment hand hygiene. The higher level of knowledge of five moment hand hygiene, the better implementation of five moment hand hygiene. Purpose : This research aims to reveal the description o f the know ledge level about five m om ent hand hygiene in preventing CO VID -19 am ong dental students at U M Y Method : The type o f research used is descriptive with Cross Sectional design. D ata in this research are quantitative data. The subjects in this study were 174 students o f the dentist profession in 2020 who were selected using the total sampling method. Intsrumen research in the form o f Five M oment Hand Hygiene questionnaire. Data analysis uses univariate and is presented in the form o f frequency distribution. Results : A s many 121 respondents (69,50% ) had a high level o f knowledge in five moment hand hygiene to preventing COVID -19. The majority o f respondents, namely women, had a high level o f stress, namely 9 6 (72,18% ). A total o f 174 (100%) students answered correctlyon question item number 6 regarding hand hygiene steps and as many as 92 (52,90% ) students answered incorrectly on question item number 9 regarding the time required for hand hygiene. Conclusion : the majority o f students o f Universitas M uhammadiyah Yogyakarta have a level o f knowledge five m om ent hand hygiene in preventing COVID -1 9 with the high category