Cultural Care Analysis of Scabies Disease Based on the Sunrise Theory of the Leininger Model

Introduction: Scabies are various kinds of skin
diseases that often occur in society. Groups at risk
of scabies are people who do activities together at the
same time and place and pay less attention to personal
and environmental hygiene. One of the risk groups is
students in an internship, with the incidence of scabies
in the last three years recorded at 91.1% of the 374
students who live in internship “X” Ponorogo Regency.
This study aimed to analyze cultural care in scabies
disease based on the theory of Sunrise Model Leininger.
Methods: This study used qualitative research methods
with ethnographic approaches. Taking informants is
carried out by purposive sampling, consisting of 5
informants, including three main informants and two an in-depth interview, conducting content analysis.
Results: The results showed that cultural care
accommodation or negotiation actions needed to be
given to reduce the perception of students who said
scabies was a symbol of validity and could not be
avoided by the students. Including the treatment of
letting be exposed to scabies. While the treatment
of the student still gathered when one of the scabies
was given cultural care repatterning or restructuring.
Conclusion: Cultural factors in treating scabies are
bathing in the mountains and cleaning. Friday activities
are given cultural care maintenance or preservation
measures. Therefore, it is necessary to provide health
education to students and internship managers, so that
decision-making on scabies events is appropriate and
sustainable. In addition, promotive and preventive are
important for subsequent prevention.
Keywords: Cultural care, scabies, students.