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Faktor Perilaku yang Berpengaruh terhadap Kejadian Malaria di Daerah Endemis Malaria The Behavioral Factor Associated with The Incidence of Malaria in Endemic Area

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ABSTRACTBackground: Magelang Regency is one of the endemic area of malaria in central Java. The working areaof Health centre of Kajoran I, Banjaretno, has the highest incidence of malaria annually (Dinkes Magelang,2010). Malaria is is transmitted through the bite of female Anopheles infected by Plasmodium sp. Its mosteffective prevention is vector eradication. This study was aimed at finding out the behavioral risk for theincidence of malaria.Design and Methods: In this observasional study using case control design include 40 cases and 40 controlsusing the simple random sampling. Chi square test followed by double-logistic regression was applied forthe data analysis with p=5%.Results: Bivariate analysis on the 6 factors resulted in p0.05. multivariateanalysis showed that the habit factor of going out in the evening, installing wire gauze on the ventilation,hanging used clothes, mowing lawn, the existence of closed waste basket, washing the curtain resulted inthe p=0.010 (OR = 10; 95% CI = 3.4-39.2), p=0.001 (OR = 4.1; 95% CI = 3.5-15.8), p=0.018 (OR = 3.3; 95% CI =1.9 -16.2), p=0.044 (OR = 6.5; 95% CI = 2.1-30.9), p=0.380 (OR = 0.43; 95% CI = 0.1-1.2), p=0.002 (OR = 2.4; 95%CI =3.4 -5.6) respectively.Conclusion: The habit of going out in the evening has been shown to be most important behavioral factorassociated with the malaria incidence (Sains Medika,

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Sains Medika:3(2)2011:168-176

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Semarang : FK. Universitas Islam Sultan Agung Semarang., 2011

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