Chickenpox prevention behaviour in the Ras Laffan Industrial City Qatar


 

 
Corresponding author: 
Djuhari 
djuharie@yahoo.com  
South East Asia Nursing Research, Vol 2 No 1, March 2020 
ISSN:2685-032X 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26714/seanr.2.1.2020.33-38 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 

Original Research 
 

Chickenpox prevention behaviour in the Ras Laffan Industrial City Qatar  
 
Djuhari Djuhari1 

1 Medical Departement Qatar Petroleum 

 
Article Info  Abstract 

Article History: 
Accepted March 4th, 2020 
 
Keywords:  
Knowledge; Behaviour; 
Chickenpox 

 Chickenpox is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by the Varicella 
Zoster virus, characterized by a characteristic eruption on the skin and can 
affect people of all ages. Increasing knowledge and behaviour to prevent 
chickenpox transmission is very important for mining workers, especially in 
their accommodation environment. The purpose of this study was to 
determine the relationship between knowledge of mining workers and 
prevention behaviour of chickenpox transmission. The type of research used 
is associative descriptive. The respondents of this study were 67 mining 
workers who lived in the Ras Laffan Industrial City Qatar accommodation, 
which were obtained through total sampling. The results showed that there 
was a relationship between knowledge and the behaviour to prevent 
chickenpox transmission with a significant value of p = 0.023, p <α (0.05). 
Suggestions for workers in the Ras Laffan Industrial City Qatar 
accommodation environment, especially those related to preventing the 
transmission of chickenpox, should be more aware of the very fast 
transmission of chickenpox. 

 

INTRODUCTION  

Chickenpox is derived from the language of 
Latin, Varicella. 1 This disease s known by 
the term Chickenpox Chickenpox.2 Varicella 
is a disease infections are very contagious 
that is caused by a virus Varicella Zoster, is 
characterized by the eruption of the typical 
on the skin. Disease Chickenpoxcan attack 
all layers of age, but generally the disease is 
attacking the children.3,4 

The incidence of chickenpox in the world is 
still high.5–7 he number of cases of 
Chickenpox were registered in Qatar has 
always increased in three years last, began 
the year 2012 to 2014. The high number of 

events that require measures of prevention 
and treatment is good.7  

Symptoms of chickenpox water usually 
begin to appear in time 10 to 21 days after 
the body infected with the virus varicella. 
Symptoms are usually in the form of fever, 
no appetite eat, myalgia, sore head. But in 
the case of Chickenpox adults complaint, a 
major form of the sense of pain that is 
experienced will be very beyond ordinary. 
The pain will sometimes go away for a long 
time, even though the other main 
complaints have reduced or disappeared.4,8 

Qatar is one of the destinations for migrant 
workers. A large number of workers 
migrant The cause needs service health 

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increased.9 The labor migrants are 
generally working in the sectors of industry 
and construction, as well as maid house 
stairs. In general, the worker or workers 
migrants are not aware or less aware of 
things that relate to the importance of 
maintaining the health of the body as well as 
a history of immunization were obtained in 
the past. In addition to the condition of a 
place to stay they were overbooked can 
accelerate the process of transmission of 
Chickenpox.  Displacement of the 
population of workers migrant can improve 
the transmission of disease from one place 
to place another.10  

Based on a survey conducted in the 
environment accommodation of workers 
mining Ras Laffan Industrial City Qatar 
found the number of visits patients were 
infected with chickenpox water to Al 
Madinah Medical Center in Ras Laffan 
Industrial City the period of January 
through to December 2011 Google 
Translation vary each month. The average 
number of visits patients pox water ranging 
from 5 of total visits as many as 67 people 
each month.11 

From the results of the survey in the field 
against the worker's mine who came for 
treatment to the clinic Al Madinah Health 
Center Ras Laffan, is found among workers 
mine who suffered from Chickenpox and 
workers are not suffering from Chickenpox 
mingle and interact with one each other 
without using a tool of protection 
themselves. They seem less understanding 
about what the disease Chickenpox, means 
of transmission and how to prevent it. 

The objective of this research is to know the 
relationship between knowledge about how 
the prevention of transmission of 
Chickenpox with behavioural prevention of 
transmission of chickenpox. 

METHODS 

This study has used an associative 
descriptive research design. This study has 

used a cross-sectional approach. This study 
measures respondents' knowledge about 
the transmission and prevention of 
chickenpox and their prevention behaviour. 

Respondents research it is working mine 
who worked and lived in the 
neighbourhood for accommodation Ras 
Laffan Industrial City Qatar both were 
infected with Chickenpox and were not 
infected with Chickenpox. The number of 
research respondents was 67 people. 
Technics taking samples which have been 
used in research this is a total sampling. 

The instrument of research that has been 
used in research this is a questionnaire. The 
research instrument consisted of 24 
statement items. The questionnaire has 
been declared valid and reliable. The 
questionnaire has been carried out by 
expert tests to assess content validity. Then 
a questionnaire carried out a test try 
instrument to assess the construct validity. 
The results of the instrument validity test 
showed that the research instrument had a 
value of r = 0.367–0.853 with a Cronbach 
Alpha value = 0.957. 

Researchers have explained to prospective 
respondents before the retrieval of data. It 
consists of: the purpose of research, 
benefits of research, and the consequences 
that should be done during becoming 
respondents. Respondents who had been 
willing to be the subject of study are 
required to sign pieces of informed consent. 
Researchers keep the identity of 
respondents in the research data a secret. 

The process of making the data has been 
carried out for one month. Data result of 
research has been carried out the analysis 
using a test correlation Spearman rho. The 
test is performed to determine the 
relationship between knowledge workers 
about transmission and prevention of 
disease Chickenpox with behaviours to 
prevent disease Chickenpox. 



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RESULTS 

This research is carried out in the area of 
accommodation Mine Qatar Ras Laffan City, 
where the entire respondents were taken 
researchers are workers mine who works at 
Ras Laffan Industrial City. Research carried 
out in the period of February through to 
December 2017 with the number of 
respondents as many as 67 people. 

Data were taken from 67 respondents were 
divided into three characteristics 
respectively: by Status of Citizens State of 
respondents who made the object of 
research the majority are citizens of the 
State of India as many as 30 people, 
followed Philipines and Nepal, each of 
which amounted to 15 people, citizens of 
the State of Sri Lanka as many as 3 people 
and finally 2 citizens of Pakistan and 
Bangladesh each. , The level of education is 
based on the level of education the majority 
of educated high school many as 33 people, 
SMP many as 11 people, Diploma as many as 
10 people, Bachelor of as many as nine 
people and the last elementary school as 
much as 4 people and group work. Based on 
the type of work the majority of the 
respondents work in class Employee Staff 
(Labor) for 53 people and remaining there 
in the group of senior staff of as many as 14 
people. 

Results of the study showed that the level of 
knowledge workers mine on how the 
prevention of transmission of Chickenpox 
are divided into two groups, namely high 
and low. From the results of data 
processing, it is known that 60 people 
(89.6%) have low knowledge and 7 people 
(10.4%) have high knowledge. The values 
Mean knowledge about how the prevention 
of transmission of Chickenpox workers 
mine for 1.10 then the value median of 1.00. 
A minimum value of knowledge workers 
mines on how the prevention of 
transmission of Chickenpox by 1 and the 
value of a maximum of 2, while the standard 
deviation ranging from 0308. 

Results of the study show the behaviour of 
the prevention of the transmission of 
Chickenpox be categorized into two groups, 
namely low and high. From the results of the 
processing of the data is known behaviour 
of prevention of transmission of Chickenpox 
workers mine low as 57 people (85.1%) and 
10 men (14.9%) with behavioural 
prevention high. Then the obtained value 
Mean of 1.15, and the value of median of 
1.00. Minimum value 1 and the value of 
maximum 2, while the standard deviation of 
0.359.    

 

Figure 1 
The Relationship between Knowledge About 
Prevention of Chickenpox Transmission with 

Chickenpox Prevention Behaviour 
 

DISCUSSION 

The results of the analysis test using 
Spearman's rho showed a significance value 
of 0.023 is following the theory that the p-
value is less than 0.05, which means that Ho 
refused to conclude there is a relationship 
between knowledge workers mine about 
ways of transmission and prevention of 
transmission of disease chickenpox with 
behavioural prevention of chickenpox in the 
environment of accommodation Ras Laffan 
Industrial City Qatar.   

The result shows knowledge of the workers 
mine on how the prevention of transmission 
of the disease chickenpox known to 
generally low 89.6%, regard this possibility 
which becomes the cause of the disease 
chickenpox is still spreading in the 



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environment accommodation of workers 
mining Ras Laffan Industrial city of Qatar. 
While the data supporting such as Status of 
Citizens State, level of education, Group 
Works by answers to a questionnaire on 
knowledge about how the prevention of 
transmission of chickenpox was distributed 
to those obtained frequency level of 
knowledge of the majority of the low of 60 
(89.6%) of the total frequency is 67 (100 
%), the value of Mean of 1.10, the value 
Median 1.00 and standard deviation of 
0.308, it can be described that the level of 
education, nationality and type of work 
does not affect the level of knowledge 
workers mine on how the prevention of 
transmission of chickenpox. 

Knowledge is an effort that underlies a 
person's thinking is scientific, while its level 
depends on scientific knowledge or basic 
education people are.12 Heigh and the low 
level of knowledge of the workers mine 
against disease chickenpox depends on the 
information that is received and does not 
depend on the level of education of each 
individual. This means that not all workers 
mine who has a level of education is high 
know about how the prevention of 
transmission of chickenpox much better 
than the worker's mine who has a level of 
education low.13 

Knowledge is not obtained from education 
formal course, will however be obtained 
through education non-formal. Knowledge 
someone about an object contains two 
aspects, namely the aspect of positive and 
aspects negative. The second aspect of this 
which will determine the attitude of a 
person, the more many aspects of positive 
and object are known, then it will lead to an 
attitude more positive towards the object 
specified. One form of the object's health 
can be described by the knowledge that is 
gained from the experience itself.14  

Prevention behaviour of chickenpox disease 
among mining workers such a the research 
results is generally low 85.1%. Behaviour in 
here to explain about the role they are to 

perform the prevention of transmission of 
chickenpox on worker mine in the 
environment of accommodation Ras Laffan 
Industrial City. While the data supporting 
such as Status of Citizens State, Education 
Level, Class Works by answers to a 
questionnaire on knowledge about how the 
prevention of transmission of chickenpox 
was distributed to those obtained frequency 
level of knowledge of the majority of the low 
of 57 (85.1 %) of the total frequency 67 
(100% ), the value of Mean of 1.10, the value 
Median 1.00 and standard deviation of 
0.308, it can be described that the level of 
education, nationality and type of education 
does not affect the level of behaviour 
workers mine to attempt the prevention of 
transmission of chickenpox in the 
environment accommodation of workers 
Qatar Industrial City's Ras Laffan mine. 

The more low-behavioural prevention of 
chickenpox water in the environment 
accommodation of workers mining, the 
process of transmission and spread of the 
disease chickenpox becomes very easy. 
Starting from individual to individual other 
than spread from the environment one into 
the environment more.3,15 So it can be 
concluded lack of behavioural prevention of 
transmission of chickenpox on worker mine 
very closely related with the level of 
knowledge of them against the disease 
chickenpox, as stated in the above that level 
knowledge workers mine on how the 
prevention of transmission of chickenpox 
against the disease was itself generally low. 

It is following studies of other states that the 
act of a person constituted by what is known 
and what is considered to be good to 
him.16,17 A person's actions are often 
interpreted in the same way as one's 
behaviour. Good health knowledge is 
directly proportional to health behaviour.18 
This means that the better a person's 
knowledge is, the better his health 
behaviour will be. 

Based on the results of the analysis above, 
the role of health workers, especially nurses 



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who work at Ras Laffan Industrial City, is 
very much needed, especially in terms of 
providing intensive counselling and 
socialization on efforts to prevent the 
transmission of chickenpox in the 
accommodation environment of mining 
workers in Ras Laffan Industrial City Qatar. 
Starting from providing information about 
chickenpox covering the causes, symptoms 
and signs of someone having chickenpox, 
the mode of transmission, the complications 
caused to how to prevent the transmission 
of chickenpox to all mining workers in the 
Ras Laffan Industrial City Qatar 
accommodation environment.  

Emphasizing the importance of 
implementing a clean and healthy lifestyle 
to mining workers both in times of health 
and illness. Especially for mining workers 
infected with chickenpox, they should 
comply with all instructions given by health 
workers such as washing hands before and 
after carrying out activities, always being in 
an isolation room during the treatment 
period, always using personal protective 
equipment such as masks when meeting 
visiting guests., changing clothes every day, 
cutting fingernails and so on related to 
personal hygiene. 

Through the above activities, it is hoped that 
the knowledge of mining workers about 
how to prevent the transmission of 
chickenpox will increase, it is hoped that it 
will lead to positive behaviour among 
mineworkers regarding efforts to prevent 
chickenpox transmission in their 
accommodation environment. The final 
result expected from all of the above actions 
is of course to minimize the incidence of 
chickenpox transmission in the Ras Laffan 
Industrial City Qatar accommodation, which 
will also greatly affect the work productivity 
of mining workers at Ras Laffan Industrial 
City. 

CONCLUSION 

The results showed that knowledge has a 
unidirectional relationship with the 

prevention behaviour of chickenpox in the 
accommodation environment of Las Laffan 
industrial city Qatar. The level of knowledge 
of respondents about how to prevent 
chickenpox transmission in the Ras Laffan 
Industrial City Qatar accommodation 
environment is generally still low, while the 
level of behaviour to prevent chickenpox 
transmission is generally also low. 

Considering that the results of this study are 
very meaningful towards efforts to reduce 
the number of people with chickenpox in 
the Ras Laffan Industrial City Qatar 
accommodation environment, the 
participation of health workers, especially 
nurses who work at Ras Laffan Industrial 
City, is very much needed, especially in 
terms of providing intensive counselling 
and socialization of efforts. prevention of 
transmission of chickenpox in the 
accommodation of mining workers in the 
Ras Laffan Industrial City Qatar. Always 
emphasize the importance of implementing 
a clean and healthy lifestyle for mining 
workers both in times of health and illness. 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 

I would like to express our appreciation to 
all respondents who participated in this 
research and to all units that have 
supported the implementation of this 
research. 

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST 

Neither of the authors has any conflicts of 
interest that would bias the findings 
presented here. 

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