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Hubungan Antara Kebiasaan Penggunaan Alat Pelindung Diri dan Personal Hygiene Dengan Kejadian Infeksi Kecacingan Pada Petugas Sampah di Kota Yogyakarta (Relationship Between Habits to Use Personal Protective Equipment and Personal Hygiene With Occurrence of Helminths Infection on Garbage Workers in Yogyakarta City)

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The Environment Agency was the Government agency that dealed with waste management, one of the health problems in workers was helminths infection, illness caused by an infection of Worms Soil Transmitted Helminth (STH). The most important of these worms were roundworms (worm Ascaris lumbricoides), hookworms (Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus) and whip worms (Trichuris trichiura). Helminths infection occured in people who often did not use Personal Protective Equipment (APD) while working in the trash and accompanied by personal hygiene which was not good.

This research aimed to know the relation of habitual use of personal protective equipment and personal hygiene with occurrence of helminths infection on garbage workers in the city of Yogyakarta. This research was observational studies analytic with delightful cross sectional. The sampling of this research was (non random sampling) by approach purposive sampling. Samples in this research were 44 officers trash. Data collection by means of interviews applied structured questionnaire and microscopic examination of a litter for feces officers helminths infection to identify the incident of illness. The data analysis applied the fisher's exact test. The result show, no significant relation existed between the habit of the use of a Personal Protective Equipment (APD) with an occurrence of helminths infection (p = 0,289). A significant relation existed between personal hygiene with an occurrence of helminth infection (p 0.015).

For the conclusion, There was no relation between personal protective equipment with the infection and there was significant relation between helminths infection and hygiene with personal hygiene and helminth infection at the garbage in Yogyakarta city.

Keywords: Personal protective equipment, Personal hygiene, Helminths infection

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Jurnal Ekologi Kesehatan, 12 (2) 2013: 160-169

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Jakarta : Jurnal Ekologi Kesehatan., 2013

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