EFEKTIVITAS PROGRAM ”BREASTFEEDING EDUCATION” PADA IBU HAMIL UNTUK MENINGKATKAN MOTIVA

Lusi Nuryanti,

2008 | Tesis |

Recently, the awareness of exclusive breastfeeding increased rapidly around the world. Breast milk is the best nutrition for infant from 0-6 months old. Psychologically, breastfeeding builds emotion relationship between mother and their babies. In case of Indonesian pregnant women, awareness of exclusive breastfeeding decrease gradually in past years. One of the causes was the lack of knowledge of pregnant women in exclusive breastfeeding. The aim of this research was to examine the effectiveness of breastfeeding education program for pregnant women. The hypothesis of this research was breastfeeding education program could increase the motivation for pregnant women in exclusive breastfeeding for their baby. Pre-post control groups design was used in this experiment. The subjects were 26 pregnant women at Klaten Selatan, Klaten, Central Java. Data was analyzed by T-test. The result showed there was a significant difference gain score mean between experimental group and control group, and the eta squared = 0.904. It showed that the treatment contribute 90.4% for the change of the experimental group. The result of this research is the breastfeeding education program had a high effectiveness to increase motivation in exclusive breastfeeding of the pregnant women. Keywords: breastfeeding education, motivation, exclusive breastfeeding

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