Incidence of Malaria, Prevention behavior and Nutritional Status: Analysis Of Factors That Cause Malaria Diseases In Umalor Village District Of West Malacca

The problem faced by manager of malaria programe, especially field workers are low community participation in the implementation of malaria prevention activities, whereas most of the program was in need of community participation to be implemented properly.Design was analytical research with cross sectional approach. The population in this study was all people in Umalor village, District of West Malacca NTT amount 384 families, with Simple Random Sampling technique obtained samples 196 respondents. The independent variabel was home humidity (X1), community behavior (X2), nutritional status (X3) with the dependent variable incidence of malaria. Data was collected using questionnaires and observation sheet, analysis was done by logistic regression at value of α = 0,05. The results of the data analysis with logistic regression test can be concluded that there is the influence of moisture (p-value = 0.029 <α = 0.05), behavior (p-value = 0.000 <α = 0.05) and nutritional status (p-value = 0,013 <α = 0.05) on the incidence of malaria in Umalor Village District of West Malacca NTT. This is due to malaria prevention behaviors are directly related to whether there is interaction between the respondents with mosquitoes. In accordance with the results of the research, they are ignoring what the cause of malaria and its prevention, whereas the other respondents who already know how to prevent it