The Effect of Health Education on Audio Visual Media and Booklets on Stunted Prevention Knowledge of Parents

Abstract

Introduction: Stunting is a failure to grow and develop in toddlers, which is characterized by a child's height that is lower or very low than the growth standard of children of their age, which is less than -2 standard deviation (SD) on the WHO growth curve. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of health education, audio-visual media and booklets on stunting prevention knowledge of parents of toddlers at the Kakas Health Center.

Methods: This research is a quantitative research method, with a pre-experimental research design. The research design was only one group or one group, which was carried out pre-test, post-test after being given an experiment. The sample in this study was 23 parents, who have children under five with a risk of stunting at the Kakas Health Center.

Result: With the results of the pre-test who have less knowledge, namely 22 people, and have enough knowledge, namely 1 person. And the post-test that has enough knowledge is 3 people, and has good knowledge, namely 21 people. From the results of the SPSS program test, the wilcoxon test value of the negative rank is 0. This means that there is no decrease from pre-test to post-test, while in the positiv rank there is an increase from pre-test to post-test is 12 and the sum of rank is 276.00, while the significant value is 0.00< α = 0.05(0.00<0.05)z-Calcul-4,508. This means that there is an influence of health education using audio-visual media and booklets on stunting prevention knowledge of parents of toddlers at the Kakas Health Center. Thus H0 was rejected by Ha accepted.

Conclusion: From this study, there is a difference in the value of parental knowledge before being given health education using audio-visual media and booklets, and after health education is provided using audio-visual media and booklets to parents of toddlers at the Kakas Health Center.