Abstract
Nurses’ caring attitude is the core in nursing standard practices that is mandatory for all nurses. In practicing caring attitudes, nurses show their empathy and care to patients in order to positively affect patients’ healing process. Furthermore, caring attitudes by nurses to mothers are expected to increase mothers’ motivation to attend to child immunization at public health centers regularly. The objective of the study was to identify the relationship between nurses’ caring attitude and the motivation of mothers in regularly taking their children for immunization at Belawan Public Health Center. This study employed correlational descriptive method using cross sectional approach. A total number of 52 mothers with the children of 0-12 months old served as research population. Sampling technique was total sampling technique in this study. By performing spearman rank statistical test, it was obtained that there was a strong correlation between caring attitude of nurses and mothers’ motivation for child immunization attendance (p= 0.005; r= 0.551). It is concluded that caring attitude of the nurses improve the motivation of mothers for child immunization attendance. It is suggested that nurses should practice caring while serving mother patients in order to increase awareness and internal motivation among mothers to bring their children to Public Health Center for immunization. Keywords: caring attitude of nurses; mothers’ motivation; immunization attendance.
Highlights
In response to Healthy Indonesia Programs with Family Approach, the Indonesian government determines 12 primary indicators of family health status
This study found that the motivation of mothers who visited Belawan Public Health Center was high
The results show that the more nurses show caring attitude the higher the level of motivation of the mothers in visiting public health center for children immunization
Summary
In response to Healthy Indonesia Programs with Family Approach, the Indonesian government determines 12 primary indicators of family health status. Immunity in children is influenced by several factors including high levels of antibodies at the time of immunization, potential of the injected antigens, and time interval of immunization schedule. These factors influence the effectiveness of immunization in forming immunity among children (Hidayat, 2015). According to Basic Health Research (2013) stated that the percentage of immunization attendance in Sumatera Utara Province in 2013 was 67.2%, while the data released in 2018 showed that the percentage is increased to 78.4%. Data per district area showed that the percentage of immunization attendance at the coastal area in Medan Municipal, at Belawan Public Health Center was relatively low. It is necessary to figure out the factors underlying low participation of mothers in immunization program and the role of health workers for a good interaction establishment with mothers during their visit to health center
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