Study of Platelocyte Count on Patient Fever Typhoid at Baiturrahim Jambi Hospital

Abstract

Background: Typhoid fever is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Salmonella typhi. The highest prevalence distribution of typhoid fever is aged 5-14 years (1.9%). Typhoid fever can cause thrombocytopenia. In typhoid fever, thrombocytopenia usually occurs in the second week (week of complications). Thrombocytopenia is caused by endotoxin from the Salmonella typhi bacteria. Study this is purposeful to find out the average – average picture and differences in quantity platelets on patient typhoid fever based on category age and duration of fever.

Method: Method used in this research was a cross-sectional method with an Independent T data analysis test using the IBM SPSS tool. The total sample was 30 people taken using purposive sampling technique.

Results: The results of statistical tests show that the average number of platelets by age category, the low platelet count is found at the age of 6 - 11 years (children) (155.437,50/µL) and the average high platelet count is found at the age of 12 - 25 years (teens) (226.071,43/µL). Meanwhile, the average number of platelets in the fever duration category was found to have a low platelet count, namely fever duration ≥ 7 days (141.071,43/µL) and a high average platelet count was found for fever duration < 7 days (229.812,50/µL).

Conclusion: There is a significant difference between age and duration of fever and the number of platelets in typhoid fever patients, namely that p < α (0.05) is indicated by the p-value based on age = 0.002 and the p-value based on fever duration = 0.000.