The Relationship between Personal Hygiene and Household Insecticide Use with Parkinsonism on Farmers at Juhar Ginting Sadanioga

Abstract

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disease which the most frequently affected humans. Parkinson's disease attacked millions of people in the world or about 1% of the world's total population. The cause of Parkinson's disease is unclear, but one of them is an environmental factor. Environmental factors that lead to this disease is pesticide exposure. The purpose of this research to analyze the relationship between personal hygiene and the household insecticide use with Parkinsonism to farmers in Juhar Ginting Sadanioga village. This research was an observational analytic, quantitative research with cross-sectional design. The sample of this study amounted to 30 people and taken by simple random sampling technique. The data obtained through interviews and observations using a questionnaire. This study resulted that 47% of farmers had Parkinsonism. As many as 20% of farmers had poor personal hygiene, and 60% of farmers were household insecticide use. The chi-square test showed that there was a significant relationship between personal hygiene with Parkinsonism (p = 0.003), and there was a significant relationship between household insecticide use with Parkinsonism (p = 0.017).