Optimizatimizing The Senior Public Health Cadres in Tapakis Village, Ulakan Tapakis District, Padang Pariaman Regency

Abstract

The low knowledge of Senior Public Health cadres has a negative impact on performance. The former public health cadres were not active even though the Public Health Center was there. No training was scheduled to maintain and upgrade the skills and knowledge of how to take care of the senior. The current research focuses on optimizing the senior former public health cadres in Tapakis Village, Padang Pariaman Regency. The program includes lectures, discussions, and workshops. The training material covers understanding, importance, objectives, implementing activities, main tasks & functions, efforts to deal with difficulties, knowledge, and the essential skills to take care of the senior. We also conducted discussions with the participants about their duties and responsibility as Senior Care cadres. The participant was very enthusiastic about asking questions. They were committed to carrying out their responsibility to take care of seniors in Tapakis Village. The participants include 22 Senior Public Health cadres. This activity took place on February 17, 2019. The results obtained by the participants responded positively and were very enthusiastic about participating in the training. The pre-test and post-test values indicate changes in the increase in knowledge that is the difference in the average knowledge before counseling (6.18), after counseling (11.23) and the value of p = 0.