THE CORRELATION OF THE ROLE OF SOCIETY ON NUTRITION CARE PATTERN BY POSITIVE DEVIANCE MOTHER

Abstract

Society had an important role to help the poor mother who has under-five child to give proper diet. The purpose of the research was to know the correlation of society’s role on nutrition care pattern by positive deviance mother from poor families in Mojokerto Regency East Java. This research design was using case-control with case population that were poor mothers with healthy children and control population were poor mothers with nutritious problem under-five child. The number of case group samples were 78 people and control group were 41 people. Sampling technique used multistage sampling. Data collection used questionnaires that had been tested the validity and reliability to 30 people. Data analysis used chi-square statistic test. The research result showed that the role of society in positive deviance mothers was sufficient as much as 37 people (46.84%). In non-positive deviance, the role of society was deficient as many as 35 people (85.37%). = 0.000 and value α = 0,05, meant there was a relation of society’s role with the pattern of nutrition care of positive deviance mother. The role of society made the mothers motivated to provide good nutrition in their under- five children.