Personal Hygiene Relationship with Typhoid Fever Occurrence in Gowa Regency, Indonesia

Abstract

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the relationship of individual hygiene with the
incidence of typhoid fever in the working area of Pallangga Health Center, Gowa Regency.
Method: The type of study used was observational analytic with a cross-sectional approach. The population
in this study were all cases of suspect typhoid fever in the health center of Pallangga in the last 3 months
with 104 cases. Subjects involved in this research were 83 patients were taken by simple random sampling.
Data obtained, then analysed using SPSS for Windows with the Chi-square test.
Result: The results of this study were good handwashing habits before eating found over 38 subjects (45,8%)
and 45 subjects (54,2%) with poor habits, good handwashing habits after defecation showed by 55 subjects
(66,3%) and 28 subjects (33,7%) were showing poor habits while frequent out-of-home eating habits found
over 58 subjects (69,9%) and rarely eating out of home showed by 25 subjects (30,1%).
Conclusion: This research found that there was a significant relationship between handwashing habits before
eating (p=0.01) and eating habits outside the house (p=0.02), and statistically no significant relationship
between handwashing habits after defecation (p=0.16) with the incidence of typhoid fever in the Pallangga
Community Health Center Gowa District.