Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Public Health, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia.
Research Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2023, 19(02), 939–943
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2023.19.2.1669
Received on 14 June 2023; revised on 17 August 2023; accepted on 19 August 2023
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by episodic wheezing, coughing and tightness in the chest and a disease that causes 15% of deaths worldwide. An increase in temperature can increase pollutants in the air, and with age, there is an increase in asthma. A family history of the disease has risk factors that can cause asthma. This study aims to determine the relationship between temperature and asthma and between individual characteristics (age and family history) and asthma in the working area of ​​the Mojo Community Health Center, Surabaya City. This research method is analytic observational with cross-sectional, and the number of samples is 59, analyzed using the chi-square test. The results showed a relationship between individual characteristics (age and family history) and asthma in the Mojo Health Center, Surabaya City, working area. At the same time, there was no relationship between temperature and asthma in the Mojo Health Center, Surabaya City working area.
Asthma; Temperature; Family history; Age; Air pollution
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Ichma Fabiola and Kusuma Scorpia Lestari. The relationship between temperature and individual characteristics of asthma in the working area of the mojo health center, Surabaya City. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2023, 19(2), 939-943. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2023.19.2.1669