Background: COVID-19 is a respiratory tract infection caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Since its appearance at the end of 2019, COVID-19 cases have continued to increase and their spread has become more widespread. As an effort to prevent COVID-19, the government has socialized the use of masks as an effort to tackle the spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia as a result of WHO recommendations. This study aims to determine the relationship between knowledge and attitudes towards the behavior of using masks in the effort to prevent COVID-19 in the community of Gunung Putri District in 2020. Methods and Samples: This research is an analytical study with an observational design and using a cross sectional approach. The sample of this research is 95 respondents. The sampling technique used consecutive sampling with a research instrument, namely google form. Data were analyzed based on the chi-square test. Results: From this study, the bivariate test results obtained from the independent and dependent variables, namely the public attitude variable (p = 0.004) had a relationship with the behavior of using masks, while knowledge (p = 0.340) had no relationship with the behavior of wearing masks. Conclusion: The results of the bivariate analysis of this study indicate that there is a significant relationship between attitudes and the behavior of using masks in the effort to prevent COVID-19 in the people of Gunung Putri District in 2020.
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