The Effect Of Counseling On Knowledge, Attitudes, And Practices Of Mothers breastfeeding In The Work Area Of Sawah Lebar Community Health Center, Bengkulu 2017

A lack of knowledge and an attitude can cause failure in exclusive breastfeeding (ASI). Counseling has a significant role in enhancing abilities and encouraging someone to behave. The study aimed to determine the effect of counseling on knowledge, attitudes, and practices of mothers about breastfeeding in the work area of the Bengkulu SawahLebar Health Center in 2017. This type of research is experimental research with quasi-experimental time series design with only one group control. The population is all pregnant women in the third trimester, amounting to 28 people. Samples were taken using the whole population technique. Counseling is done five times each month for five months using leaflets. Meanwhile, knowledge, attitudes and breastfeeding practices were collected using a questionnaire. Data analyses were univariate and bivariate using the paired ttest for data with normal distribution using SPSS 22 program. Research showed an increase in average knowledge from 84.46 to 92.14, attitude from 31.61 to 33.96 and practices of breastfeeding from 69.76 to 83.81. There is Effect of Counseling on Knowledge (p = 0,000), Attitude (p = 0,000) and breastfeeding practice (p = 0,000) Health workers should improve nutritional counseling by joining pregnancy class, participation through the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding at posyandu, and form a support group for breastfeeding to provide support to mothers in doing exclusively breastfeeding.