Journal of Health Science and Prevention
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2018): JHSP Vol 2 No 1 - 2018

The Corellation between Mother’s Knowledge and Attitude on Hypothermia in Preventing Hypothermia on Infant at Age 0 to 28 Days at Magersari Public Health Center Working Area, Magelang

Yana Listyawardhani (Poltekkes Kemenkes Semarang)
Farida Sukowati (Poltekkes Kemenkes Semarang)
Elisa Ulfiana (Poltekkes Kemenkes Semarang)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Apr 2018

Abstract

Hypothermia became one of the primary cause on the high babies mortality in Indonesia, with the occurrence percentage reached 6.8%. Hypothermia which became the cause of death was directly related to the low-level knowledge and attitude in the 0 to 28 days infants treatment. The research aimed to investigated the relationship between the mother’s knowledge on hypothermia with the their attitude in preventing hypothermia in infants at the ages 0 to 28 days Magersari Magelang Public Health Center working area. This is an observational analytic research with cross sectional design. Fifty-nine respondents acted as research sample and choosed with total sampling as a sampling technique and questionnaire as a research instrument. The Spearman’s Rank was used to analyzed the data. Respondents with a good knowledge about the hypothermia reached 32 peoples (68.2%) and 33 peoples (71.7%) have a positive attitude in the hypothermia prevention in infants with the ages 0 to 28 days. Spearman analysis generated 0.001 ρ value ( ρ < 0.05 ). The value of the correlation ( r ) reached 0.850, with the meaning there was a relationship between the mother knowledge of hypothermia with mother’s attitude in hypothermia prevention in infants at the ages 0 to 28 days.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jhsp

Publisher

Subject

Nursing Public Health

Description

JHSP is an Open Access, double blind peer-reviewed, biannualy journal in the field of public health sciences and prevention. The aim of the journal is to stimulate dissemination of knowledge in the public health field in order to improve efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency of public health ...