Hubungan Kebiasaan Merokok dengan Kandidiasis Oral pada Mahasiswa Fakultas Teknik Elektro Universitas Sumatera Utara Tahun 2023

Abstract

Smoking is a highly frequent and ubiquitous practice in society that has serious health consequences. Oral candidiasis is one of the local disturbances caused by smoking in the oral cavity. This local disturbance, oral candidiasis, is a frequent opportunistic infection of the oral cavity caused by the overgrowth of Candida species, particularly Candida albicans. This study is an analytical descriptive research, that aims to establish the association between smoking behaviors, including the type of cigarettes smoked, the duration of smoking, the quantity of cigarettes smoked each day, and the prevalence of oral candidiasis, by using a cross-sectional technique. The research samples were collected in March 2023 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sumatera Utara, using a stratified sampling technique was 120 students with purposive sampling. The total research subject samples who met the inclusion criteria of being active smokers for at least one year, being willing to be research subjects and having systemic diseases such as diabetes mellitus, anemia, and asthma, as well as using dentures. In addition, this research also conducted in-person interviews which to yield the demographic and smoking behavior subjects information, and collected the clinical data through the clinical evaluation of the subjects who satisfied the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The collected subject sample data were analyzed using the Chi-square test. According to the study’s findings, there is no correlation between oral candidiasis and the type of cigarettes smoked (p=1,000), the duration of smoking (p=1,000), and the quantity of cigarettes smoked each day (p=0,092). According to the result of this study, there is no connection between oral candidiasis and the type of cigarettes smoked, the duration of smoking, and the quantity of cigarettes smoked each day.