Personal Hygiene That Could Prevent Boarding Students From Scabies Disease
Muhammad Khotibuddin, Siti Aminah Tri Susila Estri

Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta

Abstract

Scabies transmission in boarding schools or pesantren is very high. Both direct and indirect scabies transmission depends on the personal hygiene behavior from boarding students. However, what kind of personal hygiene behaviors that need to be emphasized to prevent the transmission of scabies need to be analyzed further. This is a cross sectional study with 130 samples of students of the Madrasa Mualimin Muhammadiyah boarding school. Hygiene behavior was measured by a validated questionnaire. The incidence of scabies was measured by a history of having scabies in the last 3 months. Statistical analysis using Chi-square and Anova. There are 130 boarding students, 35 students have not had scabies, 47 students have had scabies in the last 3 months and 48 students have had scabies before the last 3 months. Personal hygiene is not related to the level of knowledge of students about scabies. Personal hygiene and scabies knowledge are not related to the incidence of scabies in the last 3 months. Analysis of the type of behavior with oneway anova showed that scabies in the last 3 months was associated with hand and nail hygiene behavior (p = 0.011), genital hygiene (p = 0.047) and towel hygiene (0.012). All three behaviors contributed the role of hygiene behavior in preventing the incidence of scabies in the last 3 months in the boarding school. Conclusion: the role of personal hygiene behavior to prevent transmission of scabies is determined by hand and nail hygiene behavior, genitalia, and towels.

Keywords: personal hygiene, scabies, boarding school

Topic: Health promotion and education