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Method: This research method is cross sectional research with questionnaire given to
respondent (child living in ambarawa street). There are 30 respondents.
Results: The findings indicate that 11 respondents (36.67%) had good hand-washing habit, and
19 respondents (63.33%) had hand-washing habit with less category. There were 13
respondents (43,33%) had nail hygiene with poor category, and 17 respondents (56,67%) had
good category nail hygiene. There were 14 respondents (46.67%) who did not practice wearing
good legs, and 16 respondents (53.33%) had a habit of wearing good legs. There is a correlation
between hand-washing habits, nail hygiene, and the habit of wearing footwear with intestinal
worm infection among children living in the ambarawa streets.
Conclusion: There is a significant relationship between personal hygiene and intestinal worms.
Thus, it is recommended that parents, school teachers, and other important people need to
keep the habits of personal hygiene consisting of hand washing habits, nail hygiene, the habit of
wearing footwear and cleanliness of the environment around the residence.
INTRODUCTION
• More than 1.5 billion people, or 24% of the world's population, are
WORLD infected with soil-transmitted helminth infections worldwide.
• a survey that has been done some time ago shows 700 thousand school
children in East Java suffering from worms and usually a worm
EAST JAVA infected
Hygiene of Helminthes
nails Negative Positive
N % n %
Good 10 77.0 % 6 35.3 %
Not Good 3 23.0 % 11 64.7 %
Total 13 100 % 17 100 %
2. Hygiene of Nails
According to the research result, of 6 respondents (35.3
%) who had good nail hygiene were positively infected by
intestinal helminths. In contrast, of 3 respondents (23.0%)
who had not good habit of cutting nails but having negative
intestinal helminths.
3. Wearing Footwear Habit
Of 6 respondents (35.1 %) who had good foot-wear
wearing habit and 9 respondents (52.9 %) who had not good
foot-wear wearing habit were having positive intestinal
helminths. It is consistent with previous study that worms can
enter the body through the soles of the feet.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded that there were relationships between
handwashing habit, nail hygiene, foot-wear wearing habit and
intestinal helminth infections. It is suggested that parents,
school teachers, and other significant persons need to
maintain the habit of personal hygiene of the students that
consists of handwashing habit, nail hygiene, foot-wear
wearing habit.