Self Care
Every human who is born normally has a basic ability to treat himself. Self-care is one of the basic human capacity to meet their needs to maintain to his own life, his health, and prosperity, according to the health condition. Someone declared disturbed the treatment of himself if it can not perform his treatments on himself.
The Causes of Self-care Deficit is:
1. Predisposing Factors
a. Development
This is usually caused by someone who grew protected so much and spoiled by their parents so that his development initiatives disturbed.
b. Biological
Someone who got a chronic illness that is unable to perform self-care.
c. Ability reality down
A person who receives mental disorder with less ability to cause ignorance of reality itself and the environment, including self-care.
d. Social
Someone who grew up with the lack of support or assistance in the case of self-care skills training environment. Environmental situation affecting exercise in self-care ability.
2. Factors precipitation
Some precipitation factors that can cause a person lacking self care. These factors can be derived from a variety of stressors include:
a. Body image
Someone who have changes in behavior due to the physical changes, since the individual description greatly influences one's personal hygine such as the physical changes so that people do not care about cleanliness.
b. Social practices
Someone who grows during childhood that always spoiled in terms of personal hygiene, may lead to a change in the pattern of personal hygiene.
c. socioeconomic status
Personal hygiene need tools and materials such as soap, toothpaste, toothbrush, shampoo, bath tool which all need money to provide it.
d. Knowledge
Knowledge personal hygiene is very important because a good knowledge to improve health. For example in patients with diabetes mellitus he must keep his feet. Which is a factor of self-care deficit precipitation is less decreased motivation, cognitive impairment or perceptual, environmental barriers, anxiety, tiredness or weakness experienced by the individual, causing individuals are less able to perform self-care (Nanda, 2006).
The Impact that Often Arise in Personal Hygiene Problems
a. Physical impact
Some of the health problems suffered by a person for not maintaining good personal hygiene, physical disorders that often occur are: Impaired skin integrity, impaired oral mucous membranes, infection of the eye and ear and physical disturbance on the nail.
b. Psychosocial impact
Some social problems associated with personal hygiene is a disorder needs a sense of comfort, love and love needs, esteem needs, self-actualization and impaired s
