Exposure of Germas Information by using Phones Preventing Non-communicable Disease for Millennials, Medan City

Lita Sri Andayani, Ernawati Nasution, Eddy Syahrial

2018

Abstract

Millennials are people born in 1980 - 2000, with characteristic internet addiction, cell phones, digital technologies, lazy moving, less physical activity, consumingjunk food, riskof having non-communicable diseases(NCDs).Research objective is to analyzethe correlationbetweenGERMAS information exposure andprevention ofNCDsby implementing threeprioritiesof GERMAS. This study usedcross-sectional designwith 100 sample.The results found that there was a correlation between exposure of GERMAS information and physical activity (p = 0.040); there was a correlation on eatingvegetables and fruits (p = 0.022), but no correlation on health examinationperiodically(p = 0.606). We also found the correlation onGERMASactions (p = 0,032) with GERMAS information exposure, and correlation GERMAS knowledge (p = 0.015) and GERMASaction (p = 0,000) towardNCDs prevention. There was a correlationbetween the use of smartphones and NCDs prevention (p = 0.012).We can conclude that GERMAS information exposure has a correlation with physical activity and eating fruits but not with periodic medical examination. There is correlationbetween GERMAS knowledge and action toNCDs prevention, also there iscorrelationusing of phoneto NCDs prevention.It is recommended to use GERMAS application on smartphone to empower millennialsin NCDs prevention.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Andayani L., Nasution E. and Syahrial E. (2018). Exposure of Germas Information by using Phones Preventing Non-communicable Disease for Millennials, Medan City.In Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR, ISBN 978-989-758-449-7, pages 703-707. DOI: 10.5220/0010084807030707

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icosteerr18,
author={Lita Sri Andayani and Ernawati Nasution and Eddy Syahrial},
title={Exposure of Germas Information by using Phones Preventing Non-communicable Disease for Millennials, Medan City},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,},
year={2018},
pages={703-707},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010084807030707},
isbn={978-989-758-449-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,
TI - Exposure of Germas Information by using Phones Preventing Non-communicable Disease for Millennials, Medan City
SN - 978-989-758-449-7
AU - Andayani L.
AU - Nasution E.
AU - Syahrial E.
PY - 2018
SP - 703
EP - 707
DO - 10.5220/0010084807030707