HUBUNGAN PENGALAMAN KERJA DOKTER PUSKESMAS KOTA SEMARANG DENGAN PENGETAHUAN PENYAKIT JANTUNG ANAK

Abstract

Background : In this past few decades, the incidences of congenital heart disease and acquired heart disease are increasing. Physician in public health center as the first hand of health in Indonesia country, so the knowledge especially about pediatric heart disease is very important for handling this problem. The knowladge itself have several factors which are influencing, and one of all is experience. Good experience of a physician is hopefully will have good influence for the physician knowledge him or herself. Objective : To understand the corelations between work experience social health center doctors in Semarang with knowledge about heart disease in childern.. Methods :Observasional research with cross sectional approach. Study subjects ere 30 social health center doctors in Semarang city. Data retrieval is done by filling questionnares guided which are has been tested and also with interview. Data were analyzed with Speraman correlation test using SPSS version 17 for Windows with p rate < 0,05 Result : 16 respondents (53,3%) which has good experience, forknowledge are found 15 respondent (50%) has good kwonledge in heart disease in childern, congenital heart disease and acquired heart disease. 23 respondent (76,6%) in good immunisation knowledge and 16 respondent (53,3%) with nutritional knowledge of childern with heart diesease. Conclusion : The work experience of social health center doctors in Semarang significantly corelate only with knowledge about heart disease in childern and knowledge about congenital heart disease and acquired heart disease.