Hubungan Personal Hygiene dan Sanitasi Lingkungan dengan Kejadian Diare pada Balita di Puskesmas Padang Bulan Selayang II Tahun 2025

Abstract

Diarrhea is one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality in toddlers in Indonesia. Behavioral and environmental factors, such as poor personal hygiene and inadequate environmental sanitation, contribute to the high incidence of diarrhea. This study aims to determine the relationship between personal hygiene and environmental sanitation with the incidence of diarrhea in toddlers at the Padang Bulan Selayang II Health Center in 2025. This study uses an analytical design with a cross-sectional approach. The population in this study were all toddlers at the Padang Bulan Selayang II Health Center, with sampling using a purposive sampling technique of 104 respondents. The results showed that the proportion of diarrhea incidents in toddler respondents at the Padang Bulan Selayang II Health Center was 81 people (77.9%). This shows that there is a significant relationship between the history of exclusive breastfeeding (p = 0.001) and several aspects of personal hygiene, namely the habit of washing hands with soap (p = 0.001), nail cleanliness (p = 0.019), and milk bottle hygiene (p = 0.026) with the incidence of diarrhea. In addition, environmental sanitation factors such as clean water availability (p=0.001), ownership of healthy latrines (p=0.001), waste management (p=0.001), and SPAL management (p=0.004) were also significantly associated with diarrhea incidence. It was concluded that there is a significant relationship between personal hygiene and environmental sanitation with diarrhea incidence in toddlers.