The Effect Of Counseling On Knowledge, Attitudes, And Practices Of Mothers breastfeeding In The Work Area Of Sawah Lebar Community Health Center, Bengkulu 2017

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10.2991/icihc-18.2019.43How to use a DOI?

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Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, breastfeeding, pregnant women

Abstract

A lack of knowledge and an attitude can cause the failure in exclusive breastfeeding (ASI). Counseling has a significant role in enhancing abilities and encouraging someone to behave. The study aimed to determine the effect of counseling on knowledge, attitudes, and practices of mothers in relation to breastfeeding in the work area of the Bengkulu Sawah Lebar Health Center in 2017. This type of research is experimental research with quasi-experimental time series design with only one grup control. The population is all pregnant women in the third trimester, amounting to 28 people. Samples were taken using the total population technique. Counseling is done 5 times each month for 5 months using leaflets. Knowledge ,attitudes and breastfeeding practices were collected using a questionnaire. Data analyses was univariate and bivariate using paired t-test for data with normal distribution using SPSS 22 program. Research showed an increase in average knowledge from 84.46 to 92.14, attitude from 31.61 to 33.96 and practices of breastfeeding from 69.76 to 83.81. There is Effect of Counseling on Knowledge (p = 0,000), Attitude (p = 0,000) and breastfeeding practice (p = 0,000) Health workers should improve nutritional counseling by joining pregnancy class, participation through promotion of exclusive breastfeeding at posyandu, and form a support group for breastfeeding to provide support to mothers in doing exclusively breastfeeding.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Desri Suryani
AU  - Kusdalinah
AU  - Jumiyati
AU  - Yandrizal
AU  - Wulan Anggraini
AU  - Bintang Agustina P
PY  - 2019/04
DA  - 2019/04
TI  - The Effect Of Counseling On Knowledge, Attitudes, And Practices Of Mothers breastfeeding In The Work Area Of Sawah Lebar Community Health Center, Bengkulu 2017
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Inter-professional Health Collaboration (ICIHC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 180
EP  - 184
SN  - 2468-5739
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DO  - 10.2991/icihc-18.2019.43
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