The Impact of Hand Washing on the Incident of Diarrhea among School-Aged Children at the District of Malang

Abstract

PERILAKU MENCUCI TANGAN BERDAMPAK PADA INSIDEN DIARE PADA ANAK USIA SEKOLAH DI KABUPATEN MALANG The Impact of Hand Washing on the Incident of Diarrhea among School-Aged Children at the District of Malang 1Sunardi, 2Faqih Ruhyanuddin 12Dosen Program Studi S-1 Keperawatan Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang Kampus II, Jalan Bendungan Sutami No. 188A Malang 65145 1email: [email protected] ABSTRAK Cuci tangan sering dianggap sebagai hal yang sepele di masyarakat, padahal cuci tangan bisa memberi kontribusi pada peningkatan status kesehatan masyarakat. Anak-anak usia sekolah mempunyai kebiasaan kurang memperhatikan perlunya cuci tangan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, terutama ketika di lingkungan sekolah. Perilaku tersebut tentunya berpengaruh dan dapat memberikan kontribusi dalam terjadinya penyakit diare. Cuci tangan merupakan tehnik dasar yang paling penting dalam pencegahan dan pengontrolan penularan infeksi. Penelitian ini adalah analisis korelasi. Subyek penelitian anak usia sekolah di kabupaten Malang dengan teknik cluster sampling yaitu sebesar 300 responden. Analisis data menggunakan uji statistik spearman. Hasil penelitian perilaku cuci tangan pada anak usia sekolah di Kabupaten Malang pada kategori baik (53,7 %), cukup (41,7 %) dan kurang baik (4, 6 %). Sedangkan insidensi diare pada anak usia sekolah di Kabupaten Malang dalam kategori rendah (59,3 %), sedang (37,7 %) dan tinggi (3 %). Hubungan antara perilaku cuci tangan dan insiden diare diperoleh nilai p = 0,000 yang lebih kecil dari 0,05 dan r = 0,792, maka secara statistik membuktikan ada hubungan yang signifikan antara perilaku cuci tangan dan insiden diare. Kata kunci: Cuci tangan, perilaku, diare, anak sekolah dasar ABSTRACT Hand washing behavior considered unimportant thing in community, whereas hand washing can contribute to improve the health status of the community. School-age children have paying less attention habit to the need for hand washing in everyday, especially when in the school environment. The behavior could effect and contribute to the occurrence of diarrhea disease. Hand washing is the most important fundamental technique in the prevention and control of infection transmission. This study was the correlation analysis. Research subject are school age children in Malang with cluster sampling technique that is equal to 300 respondents. Data analysis is using Spearman. The results of school age children hand washing behavior in Malang are in good categories ( 53.7 % ), moderate ( 41.7 % ) and poorly ( 4 , 6 % ) . While the incidence of diarrhea in children of school age in Malang in the low category (59.3 % ), moderate ( 37.7 % ) and high ( 3 % ) . Relationship between hand washing and diarrhea incidence obtained p value = 0.000 is smaller than 0.05 and r = 0.792 , statistically it proves that there was a significant relationship between the incidence of diarrhea and hand washing. Keywords: Hand washing, behaviour, diarrheae, school-age children

Keywords

• Hand washing
• behaviour
• diarrheae
• school-age children