Describing the Role of Personal Hygiene on Non-Complicated Pediatric Appendicitis Patients

Introduction: The most common cause of abdominal pain is appendicitis, which is an inflammation of the appendix vermiformis. In children, appendicitis is also a sign that they need emergency abdominal surgery. Appendicitis affects 1.66 out of 1000 children. Perforation occurs in 97 percent of cases of acute appendicitis, with a mortality rate of 5.1 per 1000 cases if detection is delayed. Lymphocytic tissue hyperplasia, one of the immunological reactions to infection, is the most prevalent cause of appendicitis. The lack of personal hygiene was one of the infection factors. The goal of this study was to determine the level of personal hygiene in children with non-complicated appendicitis. We'd look at how personal hygiene affects the occurrence of non-complicated appendicitis in pediatric patients.

Methods: This study used descriptive quantitative observational research at Moewardi General Hospital Surakarta.

Total sampling in appendicitis patients with 33 respondents was used as the sampling strategy. The personal hygiene scale questionnaire, which consists of 12 items, was used to assess patients.

The incidence of paediatric appendicitis was the dependent variable in this study, with personal hygiene level as the independent variable. For descriptive analysis, the data were statistically examined.

Results: The findings revealed that 51.5 percent of paediatric appendicitis patients had inadequate personal hygiene.

Conclusions: The patient with paediatric appendicitis had a poor degree of personal hygiene.