| Summary: | Background: Toxoplasmosis is a prevalent disease in the worldwide with public
health impact. Its emerged social economic impacts include suffering, health
cost, loss of productivity, need of specialized education, and treatment cost. The
seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis in goats in Kulonprogo regency in 2011 was
95.6%. The current practice in meat inspection in Kulonprogo makes
toxoplasmosis transmission risk to the workers who have direct contact with the
meat possible. The study aimed to find out the seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis
among slaughterhouse workers as well as meat sellers, and also to find out the
factors associated with the occurence of the infection in Kulonprogo regency.
Methods: This study was an observational analytic study using cross-sectional
design. The study subjects were all 82 of the slaughterhouse workers and meat
sellers in Kulonprogo regency. The variables studied were toxoplasmosis, age,
type of meat, type of job, period of working, habit of washing hands, habit of eat
or drink in the workplace, raw meat and vegetables consumption, contact with
soil, and contact with cat. The serology examination utilized ELISA. The data
analysis included the use of cross tabulation for bivariate analysis continued with
multivariate analysis.
Results: Seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis in slaughterhouse workers and meat
sellers in Kulonprogo regency is 63.4% in which the highest result is IgG positive
with IgM negative (59.8%). The factors which are related to the toxoplasmosis
occurrence in slaughterhouse workers and meat sellers in Kulonprogo regency are
contact with goat/ sheep meat (p=0.000), period of working �20 years (p=0.002),
period of working 10-19 years (p=0.035), the habit of washing hands
occasionally (p=0.001) and eating or drinking in the workplace (p=0.031).
Multivariate analysis result indicates that contact with goat/sheep meat (OR=37,8
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