The effectiveness of simulation health education to mother breastfeeding skill between two groups in rural area of Riau, Indonesia

Abstract

To evaluate the effect of health education by simulation for improving breastfeeding mother's skill in rural area in Riau. This study was quasi experimental posttest-only control design. Purposive sampling was used to recruit 26 mothers who have breastfeeding experience in Posyandu (child and mothers health post) in Perambahan village as rural area in Riau, Indonesia. Thirteen respondents as intervention group and 13 respondents as control group in this study. Two weeks after implementing the breastfeeding educational through simulation technique in the intervention group, observed checklist to assess mother skill was completed by researcher. Fifty-three point eight percent of respondents were 20-35 years old, 80.8% mothers education level were low education in junior and senior high school level and 96.2% of them did not have any formal job outside at the home. There was a significant of mean difference in the breastfeeding mother's skill between intervention and control groups, 7.0 and 4.5 respectively (p<0.01). Health education technique was important thing to increase the breastfeeding mother's skill. The simulation is appropriate as one of the methods in health education for mothers.