Socio-demographic Factors and Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) Practice among Mothers Who Had Low Birth Weight’s Babies in Cilincing Village, Jakarta

Abstract

Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is early, continuous, and prolonged skin–to– skin contact between mother and newborn babies. Many factors affecting KMC practice among mothers at home. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between socio-demographic factors and KMC practice among mothers who had Low Birth Weights (LBW)’s babies. This was a cross-sectional study conducted in Cilincing village, North Jakarta. A sample of 30 mothers who had LBW’s babies post-discharged from Koja Hospital, North Jakarta was selected for this study by consecutive sampling. The data were collected by questionnaires, interviews, and observation, and analyzed by Mann-Whitney U-test. The mean age of respondents was 31 years old, mean parity was 2 children, the majority of them were low education (64%), not working (100%), and distance to health services was less than 1 km (56%). The majority of respondents had bad KMC practice (76%). It was found that age had a statistically significant relationship with KMC practice among mothers who had LBW’s babies (z=-2,263, p value<0,05, CI 95%). Bad KMC practice was due to younger mothers. The need for support from family, health workers, and community to increase KMC practice among LBW’s babies’ mothers at home.