Relationship Between Children Under Five Years Characteristics, Age While Measles Immunization, History of Exclusive Breastfeeding with Clinical Measles

Abstract

Measles is a disease that can be prevented by immunization. According to Indonesian Health Ministry report 2016 there were 8,185 cases in 2015 and 12,943 cases in 2014. The highest number of meales cases were found in East Java, and Sidoarjo regency is the region with the highest cases, there are 507 cases in 2015 and a significant increase in 2016 of 1141 cases. The number of cases of clinical measles at Wonoayu Public Health Center from year 2013 are 4 cases, 2014 is 16 cases, 2015 is 43 cases and year 2016 is 99 cases. This research aims to analyze the relationship of children under five years characteristics, age of measles immunization and history of exclusive breastfeeding. This type of research is observational analytic with cross sectional design. The sample was taken by simple random sampling and the sample size was 61 children under five years old registered in the MTBM / MTBS register of Wonoayu Health Center according to the inclusion criteria and then analyzed by Chi-square test. The results showed that there was a relation between measles immunization age (p = 0.018), history of exclusive breastfeeding (p = 0.045) to clinical measles. There was no association between sex of children under five years (p = 0.909) against clinical measles. Give attention from health workers to children’s discipline related to precise measles immunization is very important as well as understanding of mother’s children under five about the role of exclusive breastfeeding for child immunity.Keywords:clinical measles, children under five’s characteristic, age while measles immunization, history of exclusive breastfeeding