The Relationship between Environmental Sanitation and the Incidence of Diarrhea in Toddlers in Kotakaler Public Health Center 2024

Abstract

Diarrhea is the second leading cause of death in children under five and causes 525,000 under-five deaths each year. Sanitation is an effort to ensure and improve the health of the residential or urban environment. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between environmental sanitation (water supply and solid waste management) with the incidence of diarrhea in toddlers in the work area of the UPTD Puskesmas Inpatient Kotakaler Sumedang Regency in 2024. The type of research used is quantitative analytic with a cross sectional approach. The sample in this study amounted to 78 respondents. Data analysis using the chi-square test. The sampling technique used was simple random sampling technique. Data collection was done by distributing questionnaires, and data analysis using the chi-square test. The results showed that there was a relationship between the provision of clean water with the incidence of diarrhea in toddlers with a p value = 0.003, and there was a relationship between solid waste management with the incidence of diarrhea in toddlers in the work area of the UPTD Puskesmas inpatient Kotakaler with a p value = 0.004. Therefore, the Puskesmas needs to consider efforts to improve health promotion, especially to mothers who have toddlers to behave healthily.