Relationship Between Behavioral Handwashing With Diarrhea Incidence of School Age Children

Introduction:The Relationship between Children's Behavior Handwashing with Diarrhea Incident at School Age Malang. Handwashing behavior Considered unimportant thing in the community, whereas Handwashing can Contribute to improve the health status of the community. School-age children have the habit paying less attention to the need for Handwashing in everyday, especially when in the school environment. The behavior could effect and Contribute to the occurrence of diarrhea disease. Handswashing is the most important fundamental technique in the prevention and control of infection transmission.Methods: This study was the correlation analysis. Research subjects are of school age children in Malang with cluster sampling technique that is equal to 300 respondents. Data analysis is using Spearman. Results:school age children Handwashing behavior in Malang are in good categories (53.7%), moderate (41.7%) and poorly (4, 6%). While the incidence of diarrhea in children of school age in Malang in the low category (59.3%), moderate (37.7%) and high (3%). Relationship between Handwashing and diarrhea incidence Obtained p value = 0.000 is smaller than 0:05 and r = 0792, Conclusion:statistically it Proves that there was a significant relationship between the incidence of diarrhea and Handwashing. Keywords : Behavioral Handwashing, Diarrhea Incidenc