Comparative Studies Defecate Behavior in Community That Have and Have Not Implemented the Community Lead Total Sanitation Programme (Clts) at Inderalaya

Background : Sanitation is one of the challenges for developing countries. According, the MDG report 2007, about 70 million people are still doing open defecation. Based on result of ISSDP, 47 % of community have bad habit is defecating into the open places. This is certainly contributing to increasing rates of diseases based on sanitation such as diarrhea. As a form of government intervention has done is a program of Community Lead Total Sanitation (CLTS). The purpose of this research is to identify differences in defecate behavior, among people who have and have not implemented yet the CLTS program at Inderalaya year of 2010. Method : This is quantitative research with cross sectional approach. The method used by distributing questionnaires to the community. Data collected and processed using SPSS program and performed univariate analisys and bivariate analysis and multivariate analysis. Samples are Ulak Segelung village (CLTS) which amounts to 74 people and the village of Tanjung Agung (Non CLTS), which numbered 72 people. Result : The results showed that there are significant differences of knowledge, (p value < 0.0001), attitude (p value < 0.0001), availability of latrines (p value < 0.0001) and behavior (p value = 0.0001), between the village of Ulak Segelung (CLTS) and the village of Tanjung Agung (Non CLTS). Conclusion: Results of logistic regression analysis showed that the knowledge variable (p value < 0.0001) is the dominant variables that influence people's behavio