Whitish (flour albus) is a condition of the vagina when removing fluid or mucus that resembles pus. Leucorrhoea is not always a disease because there is also normal vaginal discharge. Poor personal hygiene cause vaginal discharge. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between personal hygiene and vaginal discharge problems in scavenger mothers in the Landfills Tadukan Raga STM Hilir 2018. The type of research used was descriptive research with a cross sectional approach, namely an analytical survey. The sample of this study amounted to 23 respondents using total sampling. The data analysis was carried out by univariate and bivariate with Chi Square statistic test with a significance limit (α) of 0,05. The reseach showed that the majority of scavenger mothers had good skin hygiene, and good hand and nail hygiene as many as 13 people with a percentage (56,5 %), and having poor Genetalia Hygiene as many as 13 people with a percentage (56,5%). The conclusion there is no relationship between skin hygiene and vaginal discharge (ρ = 0,341), there is no relationship between hand and nail hygiene with vaginal discharge (ρ = 0,660), and there is a correlation between genetalia hygiene and vaginal discharge in scavenger mothers (ρ = 0,019). Skin hygiene, hand and nail hygiene are not entirely a factor causing vaginal discharge problems, there are still many other causal factors which are the limitations of this study, while genetalia hygiene greatly affects the occurrence of vaginal discharge problems.
Keywords: whitish, Personal hygiene, scavenger mothers
Nutritional status is a state of status on a person's body that is related to food consumption, and is influenced by various internal and external factors such as age, sex, physical activity, illness, and socio-economic conditions. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between knowledge and attitudes with nutritional status of children in the Puskesmas Bandar Khalipah. The design of this study used a cross sectional design. The samples in the study were 50 respondents using random sampling techniques. Research analysis uses unvariate analysis and bivariate analysis. The results showed the relationship between maternal knowledge about nutrition and the nutritional status of children using the chi-square test obtained p value = 0.001 (p <a) where 0.001 <0.05 which means there is a relationship between maternal knowledge of nutrition and nutritional status of toddlers at Puskesmas Bandar Khalipah in 2019. The relationship between maternal attitudes about nutrition and the nutritional status of children using the chi-square test obtained a value of p = 0.002 (p < a) where 0.002 <0.05, which means there is a relationship between maternal attitudes about nutrition and the nutritional status of children at Puskesmas Bandar Khalipah in 2019. The results of this study can be suggested to be developed and broaden the horizons in the field of services and so on the basic data for the development of further research related to the Relationship between Knowledge and Attitudes of Mothers with Nutritional Status of Toddlers.
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