Hubungan Pengetahuan dan Sikap dengan Kejadian Kecacingan pada Anak Sekolah Dasar Negeri 0506 Tanggabosi Kabupaten Padang Lawas Tahun 2024

Abstract

Worms are a disease that is transmitted through the soil and is caused by intestinal parasites, namely Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, Ancylostoma duodenale, and Necator americanus. World Health Organization (WHO) in 2022, the prevalence of worm infections transmitted through soil reached 11.22 percent of the world's population, in Southeast Asia it was 37.49 percent, in Indonesia, data from the Indonesian Ministry of Health found a worm prevalence rate of 62%, in Sumatra North by 60.4%. From the Padang Lawas Health Service, it was found to be 5%. This research aims to determine the relationship between knowledge and attitudes and the incidence of worms in children state elementary school 0506 Tanggabosi, Padang Lawas Regency in 2024. The type of research used is quantitative research with a cross sectional design. The population of this study were all children state elementary school 0506 Tanggabosi, Padang Lawas Regency. The sample used in this research was 92 elementary school children using total sampling. Analyze univariate data descriptively and bivariate data using the Chi-square test. Based on the results obtained, the proportion of worm infections in children state elementary school 0506 Tanggabosi, Padang Lawas Regency was 62.5%. The results of the chi square test show that there is a relationship between the variables knowledge (p <0.05), attitude (p <0.05), use of toilets at school (p <0, 05) with worms. Meanwhile, variables that were not related to the incidence of worms were gender (p > 0.05), age (p > 0.05), source of clean water at home (p > 0.05), clean water sources at school (p <0.05), availability of a toilet at school (p > 0.05). It is recommended that parents, teachers and health workers provide education about worms and can give worm medicine to elementary school children.