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Risk factors of the occurance of decompression sickness among fishermen community to traditional divers of Saponda Island Konawe regency southeast Sulawesi Province in 2016
Jusmawati
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Abstract
The aim of this study to examine risk factors of decompression sickness among traditional fishermen community in Saponda Island of Konawe Regency of Southeast Sulawesi Province.The study was used the observation analysis with case control study. The location for this study was in Saponda island of Konawe regency of Sulawesi Province. There were 174 samples which divided on two group: intervention and control group. Both groups had 87 samples for each group where intervention group included all traditional fishermen experienced decompression sickness (DCS) that diagnosed by the doctor, while control group was traditional fishermen who did not suffered DCS based on the doctor's diagnosis. The fishermen were selected used purposive sampling method. The data were analyzed by using SPSS computer program with odds ratio test and multiple logistic regression test. There were three variables that significant with decompression sick ness incidence such as diving depth (OR=46.3 CI:2.99-715.72), disease background (OR=20.3, CI= 8.43-48.7), diving duration (OR=19.6, CI= 3.74-103.24) and high risk factor was diving depth.