Pengaruh Dukungan Tenaga Kesehatan terhadap Pemberian Asi Eksklusif di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Sisir Kelurahan Sisir Kota Batu

Abstract

Health personnel support is physical and physiologycal comfort, attention, appreciation and such a kind of another form of help that people accepted from health personnel. This kind of support can be either emotional support, appreciation, instrumental, and information. Health personnel can be a source of social support that comes from another individual who give support rarely and have a role that can change rapidly. Supporting mother to breastfeed is one of the important factor in exclusive breastfeeding. This study was a qualitative research aimed to analyze The Effect of Health Personnel Support for Exclusive Appropriation at Sisir Community Health Center (CHC) Working Area Batu City. This research design was assessed through analytical survey with cross sectional approach and was analyzed using Chi Square test. This research was conducted in August to September 2016. Sample of this research was selected using simple random sampling technique with a total sample of 100 mothers. The independent variabel of this research is health personnel support, and dependent variabel is the exclusive breastfeeding were measured using a questionnaire.Chi Square test result shows that p = 0.000 (<0.05) and the ratio of 10.5 prevalent. It means the mother who has the support of health personnel lacked the possibility to not give breastfeeding 10,5 times greater than mother who hasn't received the support from health personnel. The conclusion of this study, there is a significant health personnel support for exclusive breastfeeding in Sisir Community Health Center Working Area Batu City.