The Correlation Between Mother’s Occupation and the Success of Exclusive Breastfeeding on the Karangasem Public Health Care Center, Pemalang Regency

Abstract

Exclusive breastfeeding means babies receive only breast milk. No other liquids like formula milk, water, orange juice, or other additional foods are given before the babies reach the age of 6 months. Exclusive breastfeeding can be influenced by several factors, including predisposing factors (education, knowledge, and traditional or cultural values), supporting/enabling factors (family income, time availability, and mothers health), and reinforcement factors (support from family and health workers).This research aimed to analyze the correlation between a mother's occupation and the success of exclusive breastfeeding in the Karangasem Public Health Care Center, Pemalang Regency. This was quantitative research with a crosssectional approach. 96 mothers who had babies aged 7-12 months were selected as the research participants using the purposive sampling technique. The research data were analyzed using Univariate and Bivariate analysis. The result of the chi-square test between the variable of mother's occupation and the success of exclusive breastfeeding shows the p-value of 0.012 (0.05). 31 participants were working mothers who provide exclusive breastfeeding. While 8 participants did not work and provided exclusive breastfeeding. There is a relationship between the mother's work and the success of exclusive breastfeeding in the work area of the