UPAYA REVITALISASI POSYANDU MELALUI PROGRAM IBU JUARA “RUANG TUMBUH”

Abstract

Background: A mother's lack of understanding of nutrition is often a major contributing factor to malnutrition, both in the form of undernutrition and overnutrition. The “Ruang Tumbuh” (Growth Space) for My Healthy, Nourished Child project is an initiative of the BUMN Foundation with its collaborating partners. It actively carries out various activities to support the revitalization of Integrated Health Posts (Posyandu), one of them is “Ibu Juara” (Mother Champion). This “Ibu Juara” activity focuses on increasing the nutritional knowledge of mothers in implementing balanced nutrition, the program was implemented for 3 (three) months at Posyandu Melati 3, RW 02, Gandaria Selatan. Objective: This study aims to see any improvement in knowledge, attitude of under-5 year old’s mothers, as well as the nutiritonal status of children, after comprehensive nutrition education program. Method: This research uses a Pre-Experimental design. The population on the Posyandu is 40 childrens, however we only collect complete data of 24 mother for knowledge questionairre, 36 for children’s anthropometry. Data were analyzed with Wilcoxon test. Results: The research results show that providing nutrition education has an impact on nutritional knowledge and attitude of mothers. Nutritional status has not changed significantly, but shows a trend towards improvement. Conclusion: The implementation of the Posyandu revitalization program” Ibu Juara” which focusing on nutritional education activities for mothers, has been proven to significantly beneficials.