The Relationship Between Basic Sanitation and Personal Hygiene with The Incidence of Diarrhea In Medan City

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10.2991/phico-17.2018.37How to use a DOI?

Keywords

diarrhea; toilet building; landfills system; sewerage system; habit of hand washing

Abstract

Diarrhea is still a public health problem in developing countries. The availability of basic sanitation such as clean water, the use of latrines, the disposal of wastewater, the garbage disposal, the house and the healthy environment and the cultivation of clean and healthy living behaviors in daily life need to be done to prevent the increasing incidence of environment-based diseases, including diarrhea. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between basic sanitation consisting of the condition of the toilet building, the condition of landfills system, the condition of the sewerage system and the habit of hand washing with the incidence of diarrhea at Medan Labuhan Primary Health Care in Medan city. The population of this research is the community around Medan Labuhan Primary Health Care which is 15-55 years old. The sample of research is 65 people with consecutive sampling method. Data collection using primary data by interview and direct observation. Assessment of basic sanitation using observation with checklist guidance already valid, hand washing judgment assessment using interview with valid questionnaire guidance. Data analysis using chi square with SPSS program. The result showed that there was correlation between the condition of the toilet with the occurrence of diarrhea (p=0,002, Prevalence Ratio=8,9), there was correlation between the condition of household garbage with diarrhea occurrence (p=0,014, Prevalence Ratio=5,1), there was a relationship between the condition of sewerage system (p=0,008, PR=4,6) and there is a relationship between hand washing habit and diarrhea occurrence in community at the The Medan Labuhan Primary Health Care (p=0,005, Prevalence Ratio= 12,5).

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