HUBUNGAN PERILAKU CUCI TANGAN DENGAN KEJADIAN DIARE PADA SISWA DI SDN KEBONAGUNG KECAMATAN PURI KABUPATEN MOJOKERTO

Abstract

The School-age children behavior is less paying in attention for washing their hands in daily life, especially when in the school environment. It is certainly have big impact for causing diarrheal disease. Diarrhea is still a public health problem in Indonesia as a developing country. One of the prevention of diseases that become Clean and Healthy Behavior (CHB) programs in schools is Handwashing. Teaching the Children about washing hands early as culture is very important because they are the agents of change in their surrounding area. One keys that create the hand washing behavior is the education and infrastructure. Therefore, the researcher purpose to study the relationship between handwashing behavior and diarrhea cases in elementary school. It is analytical correlation with cross sectional approach and total sample type 70 respondents . Data was collected using handwashing behavior observation sheets online / whatsapp and diarrhea cases questionnaires. Data analysis was completed by cross tabulation / crosstabs. The results of the cross tabulation of 70 respondents who had proper hand washing behavior were 61 respondents (87,1%) while of 9 respondents the behavior of washing their hands was not 100% or all had diarrhea. So it can be concluded that the more precisely the person is doing hand washing, the less incidents of diarrhea. This there is a relationship between hand washing behavior with the diarrhea cases on students at SDN Kebonagung, Puri subdistrict, Mojokerto. There needs to be counseling from Public Health Officer about how to wash hands using soap right for elementary school students.