PENGARUH EDUKASI KESEHATAN TERHADAP TINGAT PENGETAHUAN IBU TENTANG PENANGANAN BALITA TERSEDAK DI PAUD SACHAROSA KECAMATAN KRIAN

Abstract

Toddlers are very at risk of experiencing various events that can threaten their lives, such as choking or aspirations of foreign objects. So that this does not happen, the parents' knowledge about the dangers and handling in choking cases must be increased considering that if handling is not right or wrong, it will worsen the child's condition. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of education on the level of maternal knowledge about handling choking toddlers. The design of this study was pre-experimental with a one group design pretest-posttest test approach. The study population was all mothers of children under five in PAUD Sacharosa, amounting to 30 people. The sampling technique in this study was total sampling, so that a sample of 30 people was obtained. This research was conducted on 18 May - 23 May 2020. The instrument used a questionnaire. The results showed that most respondents had less knowledge before being given health education, 26 people (86.7%), and enough knowledge, 4 people (13.3%), after being given health education, most of them had enough knowledge, 16 people ( 3.3%), and a good level of knowledge, 14 people (46.7%). Wilcoxon Test analysis results obtained pvalue = 0,000 or <α (0.05) so that H1 is accepted, which means there is an influence of education on the level of mother's knowledge about handling choking toddlers. Health education provides information about handling choking toddlers thereby increasing maternal knowledge.