Hubungan Pengetahuan, Sikap, dan Tindakan Ibu dalam Pemanfaatan Posyandu dengan Status Gizi Balita di Desa Tandam Hulu I

Abstract

Young children belong to the vital period in the growth and development of a child which is usually called the golden age. Some of the factors which influence the nutritional status of young children are the knowledge, attitude, and action of a woman who has young chil-dren to observe her children’s weight at Posyandu. The objective of the research is to iden-tify the correlation of women’s knowledge, attitude, and action of Posyandu with the nutri-tional status of young children at Tandem Hulu I Village. The research uses descriptive correlation method. The samples are 74 women who have young children, taken by attend-ing convenience sampling technique. The research instrument is questionnaire about women’s knowledge, attitude, and action in attending Posyandu and nutritional status of young children, The data are analyzed by attending chi-square statistic test. The result of the research shows that the majority of the respondents have good knowledge, positive attitude, and active action in attending Posyandu, and the nutritional status of young chil-dren is in the good category. The result of correlation test shows that there is a correlation of knowledge, attitude, and action in attending Posyandu with the nutritional status of young children at p-value < 0.05. The conclusion is that there is the correlation of women’s knowledge, attitude, and action in attending Posyandu with the nutritional status of young children. It is recommended that the health care providers at the research location provide services at Posyandu optimally, increase women’s knowledge, attitude, and action in at-tending Posyandu by providing education for the women and supplementary food for young children.