46 | Indonesia Jurnal Farmasi Vol. 7 No. 1 (2022) 46-51 PENGARUH EDUKASI TERHADAP PERSEPSI VAKSINASI COVID-19 MELALUI MEDIA LEAFLET DI DESA SUMBEREJO KABUPATEN PATI Ria Etikasari a,* Nirmala Manik b , Vivin Rosvita c , Intansari Setyaningrum d abcd Fakultas Farmasi, Universitas Muhammadiyah Kudus. Jalan Ganesha No 1 Kudus. Indonesia. Email : riaetikasari@umkudus.ac.id Abstrak Pandemi virus corona menjadi masalah kesehatan masyarakat utama saat ini. Indonesia merupakan salah satu negara yang terkena dampak pandemi Covid-19. Dalam upaya penanggulangan pandemi Covid- 19, vaksinasi Covid-19 ini bertujuan untuk mengurangi penularan Covid-19, menurunkan angka kesakitan dan kematian akibat Covid19. Hambatan utama pelaksanaan vaksinasi Covid-19 adalah keraguan masyarakat terhadap vaksin. Kurangnya informasi dan edukasi tentang vaksinasi menjadikan persepsi masyarakat terhadap vaksin menjadi negatif. Oleh karena itu, pemberian edukasi pada penelitian ini dimaksudkan untuk memberikan informasi mengenai vaksinasi Covid-19 sehingga persepsi terhadap vaksin Covid-19 tidak mengarah ke arah persepsi negatif. Tujuan penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menganalisis pengaruh edukasi melalui leaflet terhadap persepsi masyarakat terhadap vaksinasi Covid-19. Pada penelitian ini menggunakan jenis penelitian pra eksperimen one grup pretest postest dengan penedekatan studi cross sectional. Pengambilan sampel secara non probability sampling menggunakan pendekatan purposive sampling. Hasil pretest dan postest menujukkan bahwa pada setiap kategori pertanyaan yang diberikan, hampir semua mengalami kenaikan nilia yang signifikan yaitu nilai postest lebih tinggi dari nilai pretest. Pada uji normalitas didapatkan hasil 0,017 lebih besar dari 0,05 yang menunjukkan data berdistribusi normal. Uji hipotesis t-test berpasangan didapatkan hasil 0,000 kurang dari 0,05 yang menunjukkan bahwa hipotesis (H1) diterima. Berdasarkan hasil data diatas dapat disimpulkan bahwa pemberian edukasi berpengaruh terhadap persepsi masyarakat Desa Sumberejo terhadap vaksinasi Covid-19. Kata Kunci : vaksin Covid-19, edukasi, persepsi Abstract The corona virus pandemic is a major public health problem today. Indonesia is one of the countries affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. In an effort to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic, the Covid-19 vaccination aims to reduce the transmission of Covid-19, reduce morbidity and mortality due to Covid 19. The main obstacle to implementing the Covid-19 vaccination is public doubts about vaccines. Lack of information and education about vaccination has made the public's perception of vaccines negative. Therefore, providing education in this study is intended to provide information about the Covid-19 vaccination so that the perception of the Covid-19 vaccine does not lead to a negative perception. Objective of This study was conducted to analyze the effect of education through leaflets on public perception of Covid-19 vaccination. This research uses a pre-experimental research type, one group pretest posttest with a cross sectional study approach. Sampling was non-probability sampling using a purposive sampling approach. The results of the pretest and posttest showed that in each category of questions given, almost all experienced a significant increase in value, namely the posttest value was higher than the pretest value. In the normality test, the result is 0.017 which is greater than 0.05 which indicates the data is normally distributed. Paired t-test hypothesis test results obtained 0.000 less than 0.05 which indicates that the hypothesis (H1) is accepted. Based on the results of the data above, it can be concluded that the provision of education has an effect on the perception of the people of Sumberejo Village towards the Covid-19 vaccination. Keywords : Covid-19 vaccine, education, perception