Abstract

Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) is one of management strategies for sick toddlers, in the form of curative and preventive efforts in order to overcome the toddler's health problems in the Suku Anak Dalam (SAD) in Jambi Province.The study uses a quasy experiment design. The research sample consisted of 11 parents of toddlers (1-5 years old) Tribe of Children in the Village of Hajran, Batin XXIV Sub-District, Batanghari District, Jambi. Statistical analysis with the significance level of the test p is <0.05.The results of the study revealed that the detection card for 1-5 year old children is a valid instrument (coeff: 0,564-0,814) and reliable (coeff: 0,765) in detecting the symptoms of the disease. Based on the analysis of paired samples T test it is known that there is a difference in knowledge before (= 6.45) with after (= 10.18) treatment, thus there is a significant influence (= 3.73. tTest= 5.632, pValue= 0.000) knowledge of parents.The study concluded that the detection card for diseases of infants is a valid and reliable instrument, and there was a significant effect of treatment with the IMCI algorithm.

Highlights

  • The mortality children under five years old age rate in world is still quite high, each year 6.6 million children under five years age died, 18,000 died almost every day

  • Efforts are constantly made to control it with integrated management strategies for sick toddlers (Alkema et al, 2014)

  • There is an increase in programmes to addressing the problem of disease, the number of mortality and morbidity still remain high, a variety of innovative ways to reduce mortality and morbidity rate in children starting from pregnancy continue to be developed

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Introduction

The mortality children under five years old age (toodlers) rate in world is still quite high, each year 6.6 million children under five years age died, 18,000 died almost every day. Integrated management of toddlers who is sick is a cost effective interventions to address mortality children under five years age problems caused by acute respiratory tract infections, diarrhoea, measles, malaria, and malnutrition which is often a combination of these circumstances (Firdaus et al, 2013). Based on above problems researchers interested in conducting research with title research Algorithms Tests at Integrated Management of toddlers of illness programme with Disease Detection cards on toddlers at Suku Anak Dalam at Hajran Village Batanghari sub district Jambi province. This research is analytical research with quasy experiment two group pre and post test design Aiming research to find out influence Algorithms Tests at Integrated Management of toddlers of illness programme with Disease Detection cards on toddlers for Suku Anak Dalam at Hajran Village Batin XXIV sub district Batanghari district Jambi province. The characteristics of subject shows that proportions of sex women subject more than men subject that is 7 people (63.63%), where as the characteristics of age, weight and height of subject in outline presented in following table

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