Relationship between Knowledge Level and Family Participation in Household Waste Management in Baginda Village in 2024

Abstract

Household waste is one of the problems faced by Sumedang Regency, the cause is the increase in solid waste or garbage, causing problems with the quality of environmental media (water, soil and air). Knowledge or cognitive is a very important domain for the formation of a person's practice or action. Participation is a tool to achieve predetermined goals by emphasizing the psychological aspect that can encourage a person to take certain actions. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a relationship between the level of knowledge and family participation in household waste management in Baginda Village in 2024. The study used a quantitative method with a cross-sectional approach and 96 respondents were selected through accidental sampling techniques. Based on the Spearman rank test, the significance value (p-value) is 0.833 (sig> 0.05) which shows that there is no statistically significant relationship between the level of knowledge and family participation in household waste management.