Determinant of Early Complementary Feeding Practices ind Karanganyar Sub-District Surakarta
Abstract: Early complementary
feeding practices on infant and baby still often founded in society living
before fourth months. Early complementary feeding practices is one of the
potential factors increasing infants morbidity because of it the infants more
easily get Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI), diarrhea, allergies, and negative
effect to nutrition status. This study is to Identify the factors Influencing
early complementary feeding practices in urban area Jumantono Subdistrict
Karanganyar District Surakarta Central Java.
The design of study was cross sectional where the data was processed by
descriptive and analytic ways with quantitative methods. The study was
conducted in Jumantono of Karanganyar District, Surakarta Central Java and was
done on may 2007. The population of this study were mothers who have baby
between 0-6 months. The sampling is 105 mothers who were selected using the
cluster random sampling and purposive sampling. In this study, the
questionnaire was developed by the investigators from a review of the
literature. The result data was analyzed by frequency distribution and chi
square test.
The study showed that 70,5% babies
receiving early complementary food and most of them given on 1-<2 months of
age. There was 24,8% of 32,4% of babies receiving complementary feeding in
first 2 months of age. The result of bivariate analysis showed that between
education, job, ANC frequencies, frequency for coming to professional healthy
center, perception of mother about early complementary feeding, on one side,
and early complementary feeding, on the other side, statistically was insignificant (p>0,05). On the other hand,
the association between information resources of mother about infant and baby
feeding, statistically was significant p=0,001 (p<0,05).
Information resources of mother about impact of early complementary
feeding and exsclusive breastfeeding
influencing mother’s to give early complementary feeding. Mother who have
information sources from non health providers
tend to give complementary food more early of age babies compared to
from health care providers. Midwives and nurses can encourage exclusive
breastfeeding and complementary feeding to mother through ANC program and Pos
Pelayanan Terpadu (Posyandu).
Penulis: Emi Wuri Wuryaningsih
Kode Jurnal: jpkeperawatandd090013
