<![CDATA[Diarrhea remains a major issue in developing countries, including Indonesia, and is a leading cause of malnutrition and death. Banten is one of the provinces with a high incidence of diarrhea. In 2019, the district with the highest number of diarrhea cases for all ages in Banten was Lebak with a total of 50,270 cases. The age group with the greatest number of diarrhea cases was toddlers with over 14,000 cases. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the incidence of diarrhea and the characteristics of toddlers and their parents, personal hygiene, and environmental sanitation. The study used secondary data with a cross-sectional design and a sample size of 209 toddlers aged 24-59 months. The dependent variable was the incidence of diarrhea, while the independent variables were the child's age, gender, mother's education, mother's occupation, family income, hand washing habits, snacking habits, footwear habits when playing outside the home, nail cleanliness, and toilet habits, drinking water source, storage of clean water after cooking, and toilet ownership. The results of the bivariate analysis in this study showed that there was a relationship between the child's age (p-value = 0.001; OR = 2.990), the mother's education (p-value = 0.027; OR = 0.404), the mother's habit of washing hands with running water (p-value = 0.001; OR = 0.335), and the source of drinking water (p-value = 0.005; OR = 0.329) with the incidence of diarrhea in toddlers aged 24-59 months in Karangkamulyan Village, Cihara Sub-district, Lebak District, Banten Province in 2020.]]>
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