FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG BERHUBUNGAN DENGAN PERILAKU HIGIENE PERORANGAN PADA PEKERJA PENGEPUL SAMPAH DI WILAYAH KOTA YOGYAKARTA

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Background : Increasing of populations will be caused the amount of garbage that is resulting. Waste management is closely related to garbage collectors. So it needs to be consider personal hygiene garbage collectors. Personal hygiene is the self-care of a personal nature and it determined by variety of factors, it is including the values and individual practices. The factors that influence personal hygiene one of which is knowledge, because knowledge that can improve health. Knowledge related to education and attitudes it can be influenced by gender. This study aims to determine the factors related to personal hygiene of garbage collectors at Yogyakarta city.

Methods : The type of the research was observational analytic with Cross Sectional design. The samples in this study were garbage collectors at Yogyakarta city amounted to 45 respondents. The data collection was done by distributing questionnaires about knowledge level, attitude, and personal hygiene. The study used univariate and bivariate analysis namely Chi Square test.

Results : Based on the results bivariate analysis that there was a significant correlation of knowledge level variable and attitude variable with the personal hygiene with each of their p-value was 0,009 and 0,031 while for the gender variable and education level there was no significant correlation with the personal hygiene with a p-value of 0,899 and 0,879.

Coclusion : Based on the results and analysis it can be concluded in this study that, there was a correlation between the knowledge level variable and attitude variable with the personal hygiene and there was no correlation between the gender variable and education level with the personal hygiene.