Abstract
Healthy environment is a basic need for toddlers to have a normal growth and development. Living around a landfill area will greatly impact to their morbidity and mortality rate. Although this condition may not be avoidable, it is assumed that maternal knowledge about toddler health influenced by maternal education level may be an important factor to keep their toddlers healthy. The aim of this study was to know the correlation between housewives education level and maternal knowledge about the toddler health. The study was conducted at RW 04 Kelurahan Kedaung Wetan, Tangerang from May to June 2013. A descriptive correlational with survey technique was applied in this study using 69 housewives with toddler who were selected by simple random sampling. An instrument consists of 27 points of true and false statements was used to obtain data. A strong correlation between housewives education levels and maternal knowledge about toddler health with correlation coefficient of 0.79 resulted from this study. As the conclusion, the housewives education level gave 62.4% contribution to maternal knowledge about toddler health.
Highlights
Pendahuluan Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) yang didirikan oleh berbagai negara maju memiliki target utama yaitu tercapainya kesejahteraan rakyat dan pembangunan masyarakat pada 2015
Living around a landfill area will greatly impact to their morbidity and mortality rate
This condition may not be avoidable, it is assumed that maternal knowledge about toddler health influenced by maternal education level may be an important factor to keep their toddlers healthy
Summary
Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif korelasional dengan teknik survei. Variabel bebasnya adalah tingkat pendidikan ibu rumah tangga, sedangkan variabel terikatnya adalah pengetahuan ibu tentang kesehatan balita. Sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini, yaitu 69 ibu rumah tangga di RW 04 yang mempunyai balita dan diambil secara simple random sampling dengan menggunakan rumus Taro Yamane (Riduwan, 2010). H0 = Tidak terdapat hubungan antara tingkat pendidikan ibu rumah tangga dengan pengetahuan ibu tentang kesehatan balita di Kelurahan Kedaung Wetan, Tangerang. Keterangan: Ŷ= Pengetahuan ibu tentang kesehatan balita a = Konstanta b = Koefisien regresi X= Tingkat pendidikan ibu rumah tangga 3. Uji hipotesis dilakukan dengan menggunakan rumus Pearson Product Moment (Sudijono, 2009). Tangga Berdasarkan data hasil penelitian yang diperoleh dari 69 responden, tingkat pendidikan tertinggi adalah S1 dengan skor 100. Adapun rata-rata skor tingkat pendidikan ibu rumah tangga sebesar 54,16 dan simpangan baku sebesar 23
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