PEER GROUP SUPPORT DALAM MENINGKATKAN PENGETAHUAN ORANG TUA TENTANG TOILET TRAINING

Abstract

Toilet training is training or stages of child development to be able to control bowel movements or urination achieved through organ system maturity and learning involving critical elements such as muscles, nerves, and brain. And enkopresis enuresis occurs because the child does not want to go through toilet training, and purpose of the research was to analyzed the influence of peer group support as a parents knowledge about toilet training in pre-school children. This research was a pre-experimental pre-post test design with purposive sampling a sample who did a pre-school child at the school play group Al-Anshor Medaeng Waru Sidoarjo. The population in this research was the total number of parents with pre-school age children are in school at Al-Anshor Play Group Medaeng Waru Sidoarjo. Sampling with purposive sampling technique and obtained a sample of 30 people. Analysis of the statistical test used was the Wilcoxon signed rank test to answer the problems examined. The analysis uses statistical tests Wilcoxon signed rank test to answer the problem under study. The results of research found the influence of peer group support to parents knowledge level is p = 0.000, its probability is smaller than the value of α = 0.05. Terms this means that the peer group support can upgrade the knowledge of parents about toilet training in pre-school children. Within support this peer group, individuals find ways to do and function of a toilet training so that the level of parental knowledge about toilet training be increased. Based on the analysis of data it can be concluded that the effect Peer group support can improve knowledge so that it can be used application everyday