The Relation between Environmental Sanitation and Worm Infestation on Elementary Student in Kalilangkap Village, Bumiayu District, Brebes Regency, Centre Java of Indonesia

Prevalence of worming on elementary student in Indonesia is still high enough such as about 60-80%. One of the causing factors of the higher worming prevalensi is the condition of environmental sanitation is not feasible. This research intended to know how far the relation between environmental sanitation (condition of restroom, type of house floor, the availibility of clean water, and the facility of garbage exile) and worm infestation on elementary student in Kalilangkap village, Bumiayu district, Brebes Regency. This research was as analytical obseration with the design of sectional crosss and it conducted on August-September 2013. Population in this research consisted of the whole students in State-02 Elementary School in Kalilangkap village and all of them were as the samples. Number of them were 100 students and they were determined based on the criteria of inclution and exclution. The data were obtained from the laboratorium test, interview, and observation by using questionaire. Analysis of relation used statistical test of chi square with the significant level (?) of 0.05. Result showed that the proportion of worm infestation on elementary student in Kalilangkap village was 14% which included 35.71% of Ascaris lumbricoides and Ancylostoma duodenale with the same amount, 21.43% of Trichuris trichura, and 7.14% of Oxyuris vermicularis. There was no significant relation between the condition of restroom (p-value of 0.869), type of house floor (p-value of 0.077), the availibility of clean water (p-value of 0.618), and the facility of garbage exile (p-value of 0.612) with worm infestation on elementary student in Kalilangkap village. Based on the result, it could be concluded that there was no significant relation between environmental sanitation and worm infestation on elementary student in Kalilangkap village. However, it was suggested that the clean and health life style had to be continously increased for preventing and controlling the worm distribution on the elementary school.