Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Inter-professional Health Collaboration (ICIHC 2018)

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

Authors
Desri Suryani, Kusdalinah, Jumiyati, Yandrizal, Wulan Anggraini, Bintang Agustina P
Corresponding Author
Desri Suryani
Available Online April 2019.
DOI
10.2991/icihc-18.2019.43How to use a DOI?
Keywords
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Inter-professional Health Collaboration (ICIHC 2018)
Series
Advances in Health Sciences Research
Publication Date
April 2019
ISBN
10.2991/icihc-18.2019.43
ISSN
2468-5739
DOI
10.2991/icihc-18.2019.43How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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