An Effect of Smoking Habits on Rheumatoid Factor (RF) Levels in Fishermen on Brondong Shipping

Abstract

An abstract is an important part of journal publication. It enables the readers to identify the focus Smoking habits are known to have a negative impact on health, one of the impacts that people are not aware of that arises from smoking habits is getting Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), someone who gets RA will release Rheumatoid Factor (RF) protein. Basic Health Research Data in 2013 shows that fishermen are one type of job in Indonesia that makes cigarettes a necessity. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of smoking habits on RF levels in fishermen on Brondong Shipping. The type of research used is analytical observational, using a Cross Sectional research design. The sampling technique in this study used non-probability sampling with a purposive sampling technique, obtained 34 respondents who met the inclusion criteria. The results of the study obtained 25 respondents (73.5%) with negative results and 9 respondents (26.5%) with positive results, positive results were continued with RF examination using a semi-quantitative method to determine how high the titer in the serum was, and the results obtained were titer 1/4 (36 IU / L) as many as 3 respondents, titer 1/8 (64 IU / L) as many as 3 respondents and titer 1/16 (128 IU / L) as many as 3 respondents. After analyzing the data with the Chi Square test using SPSS, the significant calculation result was 0.808, which was greater than the significant value of 0.05, so it can be concluded that there is no influence between smoking habits and RF levels in fishermen in Brondong Shipping.