EFEKTIVITAS MENCUCI TANGAN MENGGUNAKAN CAIRAN PEMBERSIH TANGAN ANTISEPTIK (HAND SANITIZER) TERHADAP JUMLAH ANGKA KUMAN
Journal Title: Kes Mas: Jurnal Fakultas Kesehatan Masyarakat - Year 2013, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
Background: Hand washing is one of the sanitation actions by washing fingers with water or other liquid for the purpose of getting clean, religious ceremony or others. Antiseptic was chemical substance to prevent multiplication of microorganism on the surface of body, by killing the microorganism or blocking the growth and activity of its metabolic. The commonly used antiseptic of hand sanitizer was alcohol; alcohol has been widely used as skin antiseptic because it had an effect of blocking the growth of germ. Hand sanitizer should be practical and portable so it could be an alternative substance to wash our hand. This study aimed at identifying the affectivity of hand washing with hand sanitizer to the amount of germ. Method: This study applied a true experiment study with posttest only control group design. The subject of the study was probandus palms with 6 repetitions. Result : The result of bivariate analysis indicated sig. 0.010; there was difference in number of germ between washing hand with flowing water, soap, hand sanitizer A, hand sanitizer B, and controlled group (without washing). The groups which had the difference in number of germ were a controlled group and a group washing with soap in the sig. value of 0.008, controlled group and group washing with hand sanitizer A in the sig. value of 0.016, and the controlled group and the group washing with hand sanitizer B in the sig. value of 0.005. Conclusion : There was difference in number of germ between washing hand with flowing water, soap, hand sanitizer A, hand sanitizer B, and controlled group (without washing hand). Antiseptic hand washing (hand sanitizer) was affective to decrease the amount of germ and it was descriptively observed that hand sanitizer B (alcohol 60%) was the most affective.
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Fajar Ardi Desiyanto, Sitti Nur Djannah
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- DOI 10.12928/kesmas.v7i2.1041
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