Cross-sectional Study to Assess the Personal Hygience Habits and Knowledge of Street Children in the Final Waste Disposal Site in Manggala District, Makassar City, Indonesia | Chapter 5 | Recent Updates in Disease and Health Research Vol. 1

This chapter highlights about Factors Related to Personal Hygiene of Street Children in the Final Waste Disposal Site in Manggala District, Makassar City, Indonesia. Oral hygiene practices can be linked to personal hygiene practices, including access to water and other sanitation facilities. Street children are a real phenomenon in everyday life that cause complex social and health problems, dirty appearance, come from poor families, slum settlements or even street children do not have a place to live. The number of homeless people, beggars and street children has decreased, there were 990 street children and homeless people with beggars in Makassar City in 2012. There were 798 street children in Makassar City in 2016 who were recorded by Social Service officers from a number of points. Makassar road with various problems. This number includes 257 street children, 249 homeless and beggars, 58 buskers, 41 prostitutes, 5 transgender women, 63 drug users, and 125 mental disorders. The research is an analytic observation using the cross-sectional method. The study was conducted in 21 October, 2019 to 31 December, 2019. The results of the observations of street children were found with traffic light and garbage disposal sites. These places are often found with dirty, dirty appearance, dirty clothes, smelly, unkempt hair, dirty hands, not wearing sandals and sometimes they eat without washing their hands, which can cause health  problems for street children. Based on this background, the researcher is interested in examining the factors related to the personal hygiene of street children in the final waste disposal site in Manggala District, Makassar City. The population was the patients with street children numbered 88 people, a purposive sampling technique was applied through chic square, uji continuity correction and multiple logistic regression analysis. The results showed that the variables age, gender, education and knowledge had a relationship with personal hygiene (pvalue<0.035), the R-square value was 0.897, which means that the ability of the independent variable to explain the dependent variable was 89.7% and 10.3% explained by factors other than variables.Knowledge variable has a significant effect on personal hygiene (pvalue<0.001), the magnitude of the influence is indicated by the value of Exp (B). 26.6, which means that street children who are knowledgeable are at least 26.6 times less likely to have personal hygiene than street children with good knowledge. Personal hygiene principles should have become a part of everyday life and providing examples of good personal hygiene practices is the best way for parents to teach their children.

Author(s) Details:

Darwis,
Stikes Nani Hasanuddin, Makassar, Indonesia.

Kristamuliana,
Stikes Panakukang, Makassar, Indonesia.

Masriadi,
Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Muslim Indonesia, Makassar, Indonesia.

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