HUBUNGAN ANTARA TINGKAT PENGETAHUAN IBU TENTANG MANFAAT ASI DAN STATUS PEKERJAAN DENGAN LAMANYA MENYUSUI DI DESA KRINGIKAN

Abstract

Background : age 0-24 months is a period of rapid growth and development which is well
known as "golden period" or "critical period". WHO / UNICEF has recommended four
important things to be done: breastfeeding the baby immediately within 30 minutes after
the baby is born, giving only breastmilk or exclusive breastfeeding from birth to 6 months
old baby, providing complementary food from infants aged 6 months to 24 months and
continue breastfeeding until the child is 24 months old or older. The purpose to analyze
the relation between mother's knowledge level about the benefit of breastfeeding and
mother's employment status with duration of breastfeeding in Kringikan Village. The
population of this study were mothers with children aged 2-5 years which accounted for
45 childrens.
Methods of this research is correlation with cross sectional method.
Results : the majority of respondens had high level of knowledge which accounted for
84.4%. The majority of mothers was unemployed which accounted for 82.2% and the
most duration of breast feeding was more than 2 years which accounted for 84.4%.
Conclusion : from the analysis of logistic regression of mothers test about the relationship
of knowledge level about breastfeeding benefit, the employment status toward the
duration of breastfeeding showed there was a positive and statistically significant
relationship between the knowledge level of breastfeeding benefit and the employment
status as much as 42.2% on the duration of breastfeeding. The other 57.8% is influenced
by other factors.
Keywords: Knowledge, the status of mother employment and duration of breastfeeding.