Analisis Penerapan Personal Hygiene dan Sanitasi Dasar dengan Keluhan Penyakit Kulit pada Anak - Anak di Panti Asuhan Kota Medan

Abstract

Skin disease is still a public health problem in tropical countries, including in Indonesia. Household crowding such as in orphanages is a factor that causing skin disease because they don’t maintain cleanliness among orphanage occupants. This study aims to see the implementation of personal hygiene and basic sanitation with skin disease in children at orphanages in Medan City in 2025. The type of research is descriptive in nature and is conducted by means of observation and interviews using cross-sectional studies. The population in this study was 236 respondents at orphanages and the sample of this study was 109 respondents at orphanages in Medan City with sampling technique using proportional stratified random sampling. The measuring instrument that was used in this study was a questionnaire. Based on univariate analysis, the results showed that personal hygiene in orphanages in Medan City experienced complaints of skin diseases as much as 65.1%. Children in orphanages in Medan City experienced complaints of skin diseases as much as 52.3%, based on observations found the predilection for complaints of skin diseases most often found on the back as much as 60 children and legs as much as 64 children. Based on basic sanitation that does not meet the requirements in waste processing as much as 9 orphanages, toilets as much as 1 orphanage, clean water and SPAL as much as 4 orphanages. The recommendation for children at orphanages in Medan City is pay more attention to personal hygiene, as skin, hand, feet, nails, hair, towel, bed, and bed sheet cleanliness and also use personal items to reduce the risk of having skin diseases.