Health Cadre Education on Providing Stunting Risk Family Assistance toward Children

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Optimizing the role of health cadres through empowerment and training activities that relevant agencies can provide is needed to improve health cadres’ skills in preventing steps in their respective environments. AIM: This study aims to determine the effect of education on health cadres in helping families at risk of having stunting children in Parigi Moutong Regency. METHODS: The research method used was a quasi-non-randomized pre-test and post-test-only control design experiment with the independent variable. Education of cadres training uses a pocketbook. The dependent variable is knowledge, attitudes, and skills to help families risk having stunting children. The sample used was 40 health cadres scattered in the work area of Mepanga Community Health Center, Parigi Moutong Regency, with a purposive sampling technique. The data analysis technique used was the Wilcoxon test and paired sample t-test. RESULTS: The results of p-value pre-test–post-test showed that knowledge, attitudes, and skills of health cadres were 0.000 smaller than the significance level of 0.05 (p < 0.05), and the mean score for each variable obtained after health cadres’ education was greater than before education. CONCLUSIONS: There is an effect of education on health cadres in helping families at risk of having stunting children. It means that education for health cadres through pocketbooks effectively increases the knowledge, attitudes, and skills of health cadres in helping families at risk of having stunted children.