ABSTRACTTitle: This study was aimed to assess the house hold mothers sanitation ( source of
drinking water) and hygiene factors (Time of hand washing with soap) and it?s
association to ascariasis of their under five years old children in the district of Sikka
Nusa Tenggara West Timor (NTT) province. Stool samples were collected from 640
children from Sikka district. The prevalence of Intestinal ascaris infection was 12.50
% in this study. According to the education mother?s only 2.3% of mothers have
high education,while in a huge percentage 66.56% of mothers have low level of
education. 32.20% of mother have some kind of activities to earn the money. Highet
percentage of children are related in the age group between 1-3 years, but only
0.13% of children have relationship to the group of under one years . According to
the nutritional status of children almost half percent of children were under nutrition.
By source of drinking water the highest percentage 76.56% of house hold mothers
use safe drinking water. According to the activities of hand washing with soap most
of house hold mother do not have this habit. While hand washing with soap after
cleaning the child defecation is a donminent variable in this study (Protective) with
(OR 0.40 CI 95% 0,24 ? 0,65). While in this study we do not find any significant
difference of the independent variables to dependent variabe of ascariasis.
