Misuse of antibiotics has the potential to accelerate the emergence of types that are resistant to inappropriate drugs. This study aims to evaluate the inappropriate use of antibiotics in pig farms in the City of Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara. This antibiotic use evaluation study was conducted from March to May 2018. This study was conducted on 100 pig farmers spread across 6 (six) districts in Kupang City. The sampling technique was done by stratified random sampling method based on the characteristics or types of the population. This research used descriptive analysis method from the results of questionnaire data collection that had been filled out by pig farmers in Kupang City. Based on the results obtained that 84% of pig farmers or respondents did not know the function of antibiotics, and 83% of respondents did not know that the administration of antibiotics must be done with the supervision of a veterinarian. The results also showed that 86% of pig farmers buy antibiotics without a veterinarian’s prescription, with the type of antibiotics most often used were the tetracycline and sulfonamide groups. These results conclude that dominant respondents apply antibiotics without veterinary supervision, which can contribute to the spread of resistant bacteria so that it adversely affects human health.
The aims of this study were to know the influence of education level and type of work against the level of understanding and application hygiene and sanitation processing of chicken meat by housewives in Kupang City. Determination the quantity of samples is done with software Win Episcope® 2.0 with level of confidence 95%, expected prevalence 50%, and accepted error 5%, then total of 220 respondents involved in this study. Samples carried out by simple random sampling to determine the area (RW) that elected per sub district. Assessment the level of understanding and application of sanitary hygiene is performed by summing the score answers of each item contained in the questionnaire. The data were analyzed descriptively and correlation between the characteristics of the respondents determined by Spearman test. The results showed that most housewife with low education level and not working have a good level of understanding (n=81; 73.6%) and application of sanitation hygiene categorized enough (n=65; 59.1%), housewives with low levels of education and work have a good level of understanding (n=77; 70%) and the application of sanitation hygiene categorized enough (n=65; 59.1%). Spearman correlations test show that there were noticeable at low-educated housewife and not working (p<0.05), and low-educated housewife and working (p<0.05).
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