ABSTRACT

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN MOTHER’S KNOWLEDGE AND ATTENTION

TO POSYANDU ACTIVITIES DUE THE TODDLER NUTRICIAN STATUS ON

CAKRANEGARA MATARAM

Background, Objectives. Nutrition is one of the determinants of the quality of human

resources. Malnutrition will cause the failure of physical growth and intellectual development

lower productivity and lower the immune system resulting in increased morbidity and

mortality. The incidence of malnutrition in Indonesia was ranked 142 of 170 countries and

lowest in ASEAN. Data WHO says the incidence of malnutrition among children under five

increased by 8.3 % in 2002 and 27 % less nutrition. Efforts by the government emphasis on

the use of simple nutrition messages through activities that can be done by the community.

The activity was concentrated in the neighborhood health center. Therefore, knowledge and

attitude of mothers in following growth monitoring sessions will relate to the circumstances

toddler 's nutritional status, because one posyandu purpose is to monitor the nutritional status

of the community improvement especially toddlers. The purpose of this study was to

determine the relationship between knowledge and attitude of mothers towards growth

monitoring sessions with nutritional status of children in health centers Cakranegara Mataram

City.

Research Methods. This study is observational analytic cross-sectional study design is done

on mothers who have children and take part in neighborhood health center in Puskesmas

Cakranegara. Data collection was conducted through direct interviews to 98 samples were

selected by proportional random sampling method. Data analysis was performed using SPSS

Results and Conclusions. From the results of Spearman's test showed that there is a

significant relationship between Knowledge Capital of the growth monitoring sessions with

nutritional status of children, which found the value 0.000 p value < α ( 0.05 ) and a

significant correlation between attitudes towards growth monitoring sessions with Mrs.

nutritional status of children, where the obtained value of 0.001 p value < α ( 0.05 ).

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