| Abstrakt: |
Soil-Transmitted Helminth (STHs) in Indonesia is one of the public health problems that occur especially in school-age groups. The global strategy to control soil-transmitted helminthiasis is regular anthelminthic treatment, health education, sanitation, and personal hygiene. All of the students, parents, and teachers should aware of and understanding the transmission of STHs. Health education is an important part for students to know the dangerous impact of this infection. One of the ways that can prevent this infection is to do personal hygiene since childhood. This cross-sectional study to investigate the Determination of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Knowledge and Personal Hygiene Practice of Elementary School student in Lamongan District, East Java, Indonesia. This study involved 219 students from grade 1 (11%), grade 2 (19%), grade 3 (17%), grade 4 (18%), grade 5 (11%) and grade 6 (24%). The observed variables were sex characteristics, Soil-Transmitted Helminth Knowledge, and personal hygiene practice. The data was obtained using questionnaires. All the data were analyzed using the Chi-square test. The results showed that the elementary school students who participated in this study were distributed by gender (56% males and 44% females). The majority of the respondents (88.28%) had good knowledge about soil-transmitted helminth and almost the student had a good practice of personal hygiene (86.75%). The ability to define the correlation of gender to personal hygiene shows insignificant results (P>0.05, =0.958) meaning there is no relationship between gender and self-hygiene behavior. While there is a significant relationship between students' level of knowledge of self-hygiene behavior (P<0.05, =0.005). In conclusion, Knowledge is the main foundation for raising awareness of students in self-hygiene so that socialization and education in students can be an appropriate choice to improve and maintenance of personal hygiene is effective in childhood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
