The Effect of Stop Open Defecation (BABS) Triggering Method on Open Defecation Behavior

Abstract

Stop Open Defecation triggering method is an effort to empower the community which aims to change the perspective and behavior of Open Defecation to defecation behavior in a hygienic and proper latrine. Panongan Community Health Center has been implementing triggering method in some of its work areas since 2014, but the percentage of Open Defecation was still high (36.21%). Biyawak village is one of the villages with the highest percentage of open defecation (39.30%) and stop Open Defecation triggering method has not been implemented there yet. This study aims to determine the effect of stop Open Defecation triggering method on Open Defecation behavior of the community. This was a pre-experiment study with one group pretest-posttest approach. The population in this study were all households that did not have latrines and households that had latrines but still conducted open defecation behavior as many as 349 households. The total number of samples was 78 households which were taken by purposive sampling. Data collection was performed using an observation method with a check list sheet as the instrumentwife. Data were statistically analyzed using the Wilcoxon signed rank test at a significance level of 5% (0.05). The Wilcoxon test results obtained significance value (p) of 0.000 <α (0.05) which meant that there was a significant effect ofstop open defecation triggering method on Open Defecation behavior of the community.