Strategi Penanggulangan Penyakit Malaria dengan Pendekatan Faktor Risiko di Kota Sabang

Abstract

Malaria is a communicable disease transmitted by mosquito bite Anopheles spp. It may attack all people of any age; it can be a baby, a child, a grown-up people The aim oi this research is to find out the risk factor (host and environment) related to the existence of malaria ini order to formulate the control strategy of malaria disease in Sabang Municipality. The design of the research is in the form of analytic study by means of a case control design. The sampling is carried out in the method of purposive sampling with the total number of218 people consist of 109 cases and 109 controls by carrying out the method of the matching of age, sex, and education, and then analyzed them in the manner of univarit, bivariat (Chi-Square), and multivariat (Multiple Logistic Regression). Using the Chi-Square test, the result of the research showed that there were relations oi work (p=0,030), knowledge (p=0,004), attitude (p=0,029), practice (p=0,000), house condition (p=0,000), and the distance of the house to the mosquito brood (p=0,000) to the existence of malaria disease, while the income (p:0,889) and the existence of domisticated animals (50,174) showed no relationship Using the Multiple Logistics Regression test, the result of the research showed that there wire close relation among practice (OR adjusted:4,29 fl,007), house condition (OR adjusted = 3,49 p=0,000), and the distance of the house to mosquito brood (OR adjusted:2,99 p=0,001) to the existence of malaria disease. The

control strategy suggested ini Sabang Municipality based on the result of the research are wearing the long sleves clothes, socialization of the mosquito net, repellent. lighting coil pestiside, installing the screen on the windows and ventilation, spraying the insecticide twice a year, and to build the malaria Post in the villages.