Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Diarrheal Occurrence - Hand Washing Habit with Soap



Diarrheal Occurence 


THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE HABIT OF HAND WASHING WITH SOAP AND THE DIARRHEAL OCCURRENCE ON PRE SCHOOL CHILDREN



Background of the Study: The diarrheal occurrence is an unhealthy condition because it is signed by defecating in the form of liquid and often in a big quantity of occurrence.  Diarrhea occurs every year in average  on children in Indonesia. The pattern of healthy habit on preschool children becomes the most effective health intervention against the prevention of disease. The impact of the diarrheal occurrence on preschool children can disturb the adequate body function such as hypovolemic  shock dehydration, hypocalemia, convulsions, malnutrition and hypoglycemia.

Aim Of Study: This research was conducted to identify correlation between the habit of  the hand washing with soap and the diarrhea occurrence on preschool children in village unit 10 Pandowan Borosot Galur Kulon Progo.

Research Methodology: It applied quantitative method of survey analytics with the retrospective time approach. The respondents in this research were 32 people with the research subject of 3-6 year old children. This research was conducted in October 2010 up to January 2011. 

The Research Result: There is no correlation between the habit of the hand washing with soap and the diarrhea occurrence on preschool children which was shown with the r value of 0,007 which is smaller than r table of 3,841.

Conclusion and Suggestion: In the research which was conducted by the researcher with preschool children as the subject, significant correlation was not found. The suggestion from the researcher for next researchers is that they can conduct the research on diarrhea occurrence related to the defecating existence and environment sanitation problems through direct observation method by taking wider areas and greater number of research subjects so as to result in more maximum research.

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