THE OVERVIEW OF THE LEVEL OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE USE OF VITAMIN C TO INCREASE BODY IMMUNITY DURING THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC IN THE PADANG LAMBE VILLAGE

Vitamin C During Pandemi Covid-19

Abstract

 “An overview of the level of public knowledge about the use of vitamin C to increase body immunity during the covid-19 pandemic in the padang lambe village”. The research is a descriptive study by distributing questionnnaires directly to respondents who were taken by purposive sampling from the population of all people in the padang lambe village with the age group of 17 to 50 years as many as 60 respondents. Based on the slovin formula with purposive sampling technique, the sampling technique is based on certain criteria so that a sample of 38 respondents is obtained. Based on the results of the analysis of research data, the results obtained from 38 respondents who had less knowledge as many as 2 people with a percentage of 5.26 %, moderate knowledge as many as 8 people with a percentage of 21.05 % and 28 people with good knowledge with a percentage of 73.68%. In this study, it can be concluded that public knowledge about the use of vitamin C to increase body immunity during the Covid -19 pandemic is declared to be good.