THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE LEVEL, ATTITUDE AND BEHAVIOR OF HANDWASHING WITH SOAP (CTPS) WITH DIARRHEA INCIDENCE AT PUBLIC HEALTH CENTER X PURWAKARTA

Abstract

Diarrhea is a disease that is often found in health facilities. Diarrhea is one of the transmitting diseases with a relatively high morbidity and mortality rate. Diarrhea is a disease that is influenced by several factors, one of them is public behavior. One example of common public behavior is the lack of public enthusiasm to wash their hands with soap before eating. This is an analytic observational study with a cross sectional research design. The data is conducted from the patients of Public Health Center X on July 2021 by using educational questionnaires, attitude, and the relations of hand washing with soap behavior with the occurrence of diarrhea. The research data is displayed in tabular form and analyzed with a chi-square statistical test. In this research, obtained from 80 subjects, with 45% research subjects did experience diarrhea within the last 3 months, whereas the rest did not experience diarrhea. In this research as well obtained a very significant relationship between knowledge, attitude, and hand washing with soap behavior with the occurrence of diarrhea.