Does Drinking Water Sources, Knowledge and Hygiene  Behavior of Mother Influence the Quality of Drinking Water  for Toddlers?

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Hygiene knowledge, Hygiene behavior, Mother, Drinking water, Diarrhea, Toddler

Background : Clean water is one of the vital needs for human. The low availability of clean water has a

bad impact on all sectors, including health. Around 3,800 children die every day due to diseases related to

unhygienic drinking water access. Cholera, ringworm, diarrhea, or typhus are a small number of diseases

that may arise from consuming unhygienic water. Even unsafe drinking water, poor sanitation, and hygiene

behavior contribute to 88% of child deaths due to diarrhea worldwide1. According to World Health

Organization data, nearly 1.7 billion cases of diarrhea occur in children and kill around 525,000 children

under five every year in the world2. While in Indonesia, there was an outbreak of diarrhea in 2018 with

the number of children under five as sufferers as many as 1,637,708 (40.90%). One of cities that has the

highest diarrhea cases in Indonesia is Depok, more specifically in Tapos Sub-district with 1,274 diarrhea

cases3 . Diarrhea in toddlers is closely related to the quality of drinking water consumed and maternal care

factors. This study aims to determine whether maternal hygiene knowledge and behaviors affect the quality

of toddler drinking water.

Method : This study was an observational with cross sectional design. This research used questioner and the

sample are mothers who have toddler who consume drinking water in Tapos Sub-district, Depok, in period

of November to December 2019. The quality of drinking water is known through measurements of Total

Coliform and Escherichia coli. The data analysis using Chi-square test.

Result: The respondents are 100 samples, there are 62 families using groundwater (62.0%) and 38 families

using refill drinking water as a drinking water sources. The results of bivariate analysis between drinking

water sources and drinking water quality is 0.247 (OR 0.458-34.284), knowledge of mother and drinking

water quality is 1.000 (p>0.05), while hygiene behavior of mother and drinking water quality is 0.594

(p>0.05).

Conclusion: None of drinking water sources, knowledge and hygiene behavior of mother influence the

quality of drinking water for toddlers.

Septia Rini Rizki1 , Ema Hermawati2 , Ukik Agustina1 , Febri Hardiyanti1

1 Researcher, 2Tutor, Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Public Health, University of Indonesia