Mothers’ Knowledge for Following Activities of Children in the Health Care Community

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10.2991/ahsr.k.200723.117How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mothers’ Knowledge, Children, Health Care Community

Abstract

Mothers’ knowledge in the following activity of children in the health care community. One of community participation in the health scope is the Integrated Service Post (Posyandu). Posyandu is one form of effort in improving community-based health (UKBM) which is managed and conducted from, by and with the community to empower and provide facilities to the community in obtaining basic health services to accelerate the reduction in infant mortality, children and birth rates. The age of children who visit the Posyandu from 1 month to 5 years. The purpose of this study is to find out whether the mother’s knowledge about posyandu is related to the mother’s behavior in participating in the activities of the children posyandu. The research design used was the analytic method with a cross-sectional approach. The sample is all mothers who follow the activities of Posyandu children’s, using the Total Sampling technique are 45 respondents. Socioeconomic, education and geographical factor that affect the low number of children’s visiting the posyandu. The results obtained by mothers who have knowledge of posyandu are mothers who behaved well in participating in posyandu activities for children 28 people (62.2%), and mothers who behaved poorly in participating in posyandu activities for children 17 people (37.8%). Socioeconomic, education and geographical factor that affect the low number of children visiting the posyandu. The analysis using chi-square was obtained ρ value (0,000) <α (0.05). It’s mean that there is a correlation between knowledge of posyandu with mother behavior in following the activities of children posyandu. In conclusion the cadre of Posyandu should be increasing the information for children’s mother to participated in Posyandu.

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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  - Yossy Wijayanti
AU  - Nurwinda Saputri
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/07/24
TI  - Mothers’ Knowledge for Following Activities of Children in the Health Care Community
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Science, Health, Economics, Education and Technology (ICoSHEET 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 470
EP  - 472
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200723.117
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200723.117
ID  - Wijayanti2020
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