TY - JOUR AU - Theresia Titin Marlina, AU - MI Ekatrina Wijayanti, PY - 2020/01/02 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - CATHETER CARE USING SOAP AND 10% POVIDON-IODIN JF - The Malaysian Journal of Nursing (MJN) JA - The Malaysian Journal of Nursing VL - 11 IS - 3 SE - DO - 10.31674/mjn.2020.v11i03.012 UR - https://ejournal.lucp.net/index.php/mjn/article/view/cathetercare SP - 76-80 AB - <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Background:</strong> The incidence of bacteriuria due to urethral catheterization is 60%. The occurrence of bacteriuria is caused by some factors, such as the technique and the length of urethral catheterization, disease, age, sex, drainage, and catheter care. <strong>Purpose</strong>: This study aimed to investigate catheters treatment using soap and povidon iodin 10%. <strong>Method</strong>: This research was a quantitative research with quasi experimental design and pretest-posttest control design. The study was conducted in a private hospital in Yogyakarta. The samples were 60 patients with 30 patients in the control group and 30 patients in the intervention group. The analyses employed the statistical test. <strong>Results</strong>: show that the significance value is 0.317 (<em>p</em>&gt;0.05).&nbsp; There is no significant difference in the incidence of bacteriuria in the soap group and povidone-iodine 10% group with <em>p</em>=0.648.<strong> Conclusion</strong>: there was no significant difference of catheters treated with using soap and povidone iodine 10%.</p> ER -