Abstract

Background: Diarrhea is one of the environment-based diseases which is the leading cause of death.  The occurrence of diarrhea in infants cannot be separated from habits healthy living of each family. These factors include breastfeeding, complementary feeding, the fair use of clean water, the practice of washing hands, using latrines and adequately removing baby's stool water. This study intends to find out the relationship between Clean and Healthy Life Behavior  or in Indonesia  is known as Prilaku Hidup Bersih dan Sehat (PHBS) which includes the use of clean water, the habit of washing hands with soap and the use of healthy latrines to the incidence of diarrhea in infants in the Baturraden Health Center, Central Java Province, Indonesia.

Method: This type of research is observational with inferential analysis design that examines the relationship of cases (disease) with exposure /factors risk indeed. The relationship between variables was obtained through bivariate analysis in research variables with the chi-square processed in the investigation.

Results: The results of this study obtained that there is no relationship between sources of clean water used for daily activities with the incidence of diarrhea in infants (p-value = 0.68: OR = 3.051). There is a correlation between hand washing habits with soap and the prevalence of diarrhea in infants (p-value= 0.024: OR = 7,000),  and there is a relationship between the practice of using latrines with the incidence of diarrhea in infants (p-value= 0.019: OR = 4.125).

Conclusion: this study obtained the relationship between respondents' habits in handwashing with soap to the incidence of diarrhea in infants. There was a correlation between latrine use habits and the prevalence of diarrhea in infants under five in Baturraden Health Center,  so it is suggested for the clinic to improve PHBS promotion to the community and further increase the public awareness in PHBS among the family for more knowledge.

Keyword: diarrhea, infants, clean water, healthy life.