Faktor Penentu Kontaminasi Bakteriologik pada Makanan Jajanan di Sekolah Dasar

Abstract

Street food is a processed food that can be easily found around schools and consumed routinely by school children. Despite its benefit, street food pose a threatening risk toward health problems. The objective of this study is to investigate bacteriological contamination in street foods and its influencing factors. Design of this study was cross-sectional using secondary data from Health Office Tangerang District year 2006. Subjects were 159 Primary Schools in Tangerang District. Variables observed including knowledge, practice, clean water facilities, waste processing facilities, and location of vendor with E. coli contamination as dependent variable. Analysis of the study shows that 37.1% of street foods in the study was contaminated. Around 62.9% had poor knowledge, 76.7% had poor practice, 53.5% inappropriate location, 57.2% inappropriate utensils, inappropriate sanitation facilities (93.1%), inappropriate clean water facilities (75.5%), and inappropriate waste management facilities (86.2%). The multivariate analysis shows that behaviour was the single dominant variable influencing contamination of street foods (p=0.0011) with OR of 3.2 (95%CI)