HUBUNGAN PERSONAL HYGIENE DENGAN KEJADIAN DEMAM TIFOID DI WILAYAH KERJA PUSKESMAS SIABU

Abstrak

The typhoid fever is a kind of disease that caused by Salmonella typhi and related with poor practice of personal hygiene. The highest occurrence of typhoid fever in 2014 was in the Siabu public health center subdistrict Siabu with 157 case. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship among personal hygiene with the occurrence of typhoid fever in the working area of Siabu public health center subdistrit Siabu. Quantutative method with case-control. The population case of this study are all of Typhoid Fever patients on January-September 2014, based on medical record. Population control not patients of typhoid fever (hypertensive patients) on January-September 2014, based on medical record. The sampels of this study are 21 cases and 21 controls. The research instruments are questionnaires. The data of research processed with Chi Square test at a level of 95% (α=0,05). The resulth show are relationship with the habits of washing hands before eating (p=0,029), the habits of washing raw food to be eaten immediately (p=0,029) and the habits of eating outside the house (p=0,031) with the occurrence of typhoid fever. Meanwhile, there is no correlation between hand washing after defecation (p=0,160). Conclusion: good personal hygiene can afeect the incidence of typhoid fever. Suggestion through of this research are inccrease awareness of good personal hygiene needs to be impoved.