Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) is a disease experienced often by toddlers. ARI can be caused by indoor air pollution and physical condition of a household. This research uses an analytical study with cross sectional approach. The purpose of this research is to determine whether a connection can be found between Air Pollution and Physical Condition of a Household with Toddlers’ ARI Incident. Research was done in July – August 2014 in Kelurahan Pohon bao with the toddler’s mom as respondents, and 124 samples were taken for this research. The independent variables were fuel used for cooking, smoking habit of a family member, mosquito repellant uses, wall materials, roof materials, floor materials, ventilation area, crowded household, and house lighting, whereas the dependent variable is Toddlers’ ARI Incident in Kelurahan Pohon bao. Data taken from this research was processed using
Chi-Square.The result shows 38.7% (48 toddlers) with ARI and 61.3% (76 toddlers) without ARI. Through bivariate analysis, a relation with Toddlers’ ARI incident in Kelurahan Pohon bao was found with ventilation area (p-value=0,046), crowded household (p-value=0,016), wall materials (p-value=0,012), roof materials (p-value=0,030), floor materials (p-value=0,044), fuel used for cooking (p-value=0,033), and smoking habit of a family member (p-value=0,016), whereas a relation with Toddlers’ARI incident was not found with mosquito repellant uses (p
- value=0,591), and house lighting (p-value=0,130).To conclude this research, ventilation area, crowded household, wall materials, roof materials, floor materials, fuel used for cooking, and smoking habit
of a family member were found to have an effect on the number of Toddlers’ ARI incident in Kelurahan Pohon bao. |