The Relationship between Mother's Knowledge and Attitudes with Early Complementary Breastfeeding in the Pratama Gita Deli Tua Clinic Working Area

Abstract

Improper provision of MP-ASI can cause health problems for the baby itself. A person's health is influenced by two main factors, namely behavior (behavioral causes) and factors outside of behavior (non-behavior causes). Behavior is influenced by 3 factors, namely predisposing factors, supporting factors, and driving factors. Predisposing factors consist of knowledge, attitudes and economics. Basically, knowledge is the basis for someone to do something. Starting from knowing someone will want to do something and then being able to do that thing. It can be seen that the knowledge of mothers in Indonesia regarding MP-ASI is still very lacking, resulting in the phenomenon of giving MP-ASI to babies incorrectly. This study aims to determine the relationship between the level of maternal knowledge and the provision of early MP-ASI in the working area of ​​the Pratama Gita Deli Serdang clinic. The type of research used in this research is correlative analytics with a cross sectional design. The sample used in this study was all mothers in the Pratama Gita Deli Serdang clinic working area who had 81 babies. Data analysis used the Spearman Test. Based on the Spearman correlation test between the mother's knowledge status and the baby's provision of MP-ASI, the P value = 0.000 (P<0.05) with a correlation value of r = 0.747. The conclusion of this research is that there is a relationship between maternal knowledge and the provision of Early MP-ASI in the working area of ​​the Pratama Gita Deli Serdang clinic with a very strong relationship and has a positive correlation direction which can be concluded that the higher the mother's knowledge, the better the attitude of providing Early MP-ASI.

Keywords: MP-ASI, baby