SANITASI RUMAH, SEKOLAH, PERSONAL HYGIENE DAN INFEKSI SOIL TRANSMITTED HELMINTHS (STH) PADA MURID SEKOLAH DASAR DI PULAU PALUE, PROVINSI NUSA TENGGARA TIMUR

• Main Authors: , DINA MERISA DAMANIK, , Prof. dr. Soeyoko, DTM&H, SU
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2012
• Subjects: ETD
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/98635/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=55521
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

Background: In Indonesia, STH infection still as public health problem particularly in the child of elementary school age. The high of that infection was also supported by bad environmental sanitation and bad personal hygiene. STH infection was one of ten great of frequent diseases in Palue Island and in this region still able can be found an adult worm in feces even from regurgitate. Objectives: To analyze the correlation between house�s environmental sanitation, school sanitation, personal hygiene and STH infection. Methods: This was observational analytic study by cross sectional design. The location of the study was Palue Island, Sikka Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province. The sample of the study was student of elementary school in grade 1-6, their amont was 100 students from 8 elementary schools. The sampling was done used proportional random sampling approadh. Diagnosis of STH infection was establised based on worm eggs examination in feces used floatation method. Data collecting was performed used questionnaire, check list and observation which then was analyzed in three analysis (univariate, bivariate, multivariate). Results: There was significant correlation between house�s environmental sanitation (p value 0.043), school�s environmental sanitation (p value= 0.000), personal hygiene (p value = 0.032) with STH infection. Descriptive analysis showed that the incidence of STH infection in the students of elementary school in Palue Island was 78%. Low level of house�s environmental sanitation of the students (84%), low level of school�s environmental sanitation (79%) and bad personal hygiene practice (96%) while for multivariate analysis obtained that personal hygiene was the most influence variable to the STH infection in this region. Conclusions: there was a significant correlation between house�s environmental sanitation, school�s environmental sanitation and personal hygiene practice to the STH infection among the students of elementary school in Palue Island, Sikka Regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province. Recommendations: It was advisable both for Health Office of Sikka Regency and Palue Public Health Center provide antihelminth mass drug administration routinely for all elementary school�s students in Palue Island because the number of STH infected children was quite high that was 78% and for prevention measure it is advisable to perform preventive and promotive actions for the elementary school�s students, the teachers and for the student�s parents through cross sectoral coordination such as between Health Office of Sikka Regency, Palue Public Health Center, Education Office of Sikka Regency, head of subdistrict/ staff of Palue Regional Government, catholic religion leader (Father or Nurses), cultural leader (Lakimosa) and Non Government Organization