THE EFFECT OF BOOKLET EDUCATION ABOUT CHILDREN NUTRITION NEEDS TOWARD KNOWLEDGE OF MOTHER WITH STUNTING CHILDREN IN PUNDONG PRIMARY HEALTH CENTER WORK AREA BANTUL YOGYAKARTA

BACKGROUND : Stunting defined as chronic malnutrition during infancy, that cause height-for-age z score (HAZ) <-2 SD. Children with stunting, has been related to poor cognitive function in late childhood motoric ability, productivity and increasing the risk of degenerative desease in the future. Nutritional problem in children associated with some related factor, one of the factor is lack of knowledge about children nutrition needs. One of the Indonesian governance preventive action on increasing the mother with stunted children knowledge about nutrition needs is a health promotion. This study was aimed to examine the effect of booklet education about children nutrition needs toward knowledge of mother with stunted children. SUBJECT AND METHODE : Quasi-experimental with non equivalent control group with pretest and posttest was used, 90 mother with stunted children was recruited with simple random sampling. Wilcoxon and Mann Whitney analysis was performed. RESULTS : Based on Wilcoxon test results obtained mother knowledge was significantly increased (p < 0.05) after the intervention, from 29 (64%) was categorized as fair knowledge, increased to 34 (75.6%) categorized as good knowledge after the intervention. Mann Whitney test results showed that mother knowledge improvement in intervention and control group was significantly different (p < 0.05). DISCUSSION : there is an influence of booklet education on the knowledge of mothers of toddlers with stunting