Hubungan Pengetahuan, Sikap, Dan Paritas Ibu Dengan Pemberian Asi Eksklusif Di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Pembantu Cengkok, Ngronggot, Kab. Nganjuk
Breast milk containts many nutrient that are good for growth and optimal infant development. WHO, UNICEF, and the goverment has recommended exclusive breastfeeding up to 6 months, however the behavior of mother in exclusive breastfeeding is still low. Exclusive breastfeeding is one of health beh...
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Summary: | Breast milk containts many nutrient that are good for growth and optimal
infant development. WHO, UNICEF, and the goverment has recommended
exclusive breastfeeding up to 6 months, however the behavior of mother in
exclusive breastfeeding is still low. Exclusive breastfeeding is one of health
behaviors which is influenced by many factors namely predisposing factors,
enabling factors, empowering factors, mother‟s factors, and baby factors. The
purpose of this study is to analyze the correlation between predisposing factors
(knowledge and attitudes) and mother‟s factors (parity) with exclusive
breastfeeding.
This research was used descriptive analytic design with cross sectional
approach. The population of this research was mothers with infants of 7-12
months. The 52 respondents was chosen by purposive sampling technique. The
independent variabel in this research was knowledge, attitude, and mother‟s
parity, while the dependent variabel in this study was exclusive breastfeeding. The
data was collected using a questionnaire (demography, konowledge, and attitudes)
and analyzed using Spearman‟s rho test with significance α < 0,05.
The Spearman‟s rho showed that there was a significant correlation between
knowledge (p =0,000), attitude (p = 0,001) and parity (p = 0,004) with exclusive
breastfeeding.
The results of this study showed that with good knowledge and good
attitudes and add more experience can prompt mother to give exclusive
breastfeeding. For nurses are espexted to provide health education is effective
having regard to the level of knowledge of the mother, age, as well as the
emotions of the mother so that the mother could be motivated to provide exclusive
breast milk and may increase the exclusive breastfeeding. |
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