PENELITIAN

ABSTRACT

HEALTH SCIENCES FACULTY

THESIS,  SEPTEMBER 2009

KURNIAWATI

“FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH MATERNAL COLOSTRUMS GIVING BIRTH ON NEWBORN AT Dr. AGOESDJAM DISTRICT KETAPANG PUBLIC HOSPITAL”

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            ASI or a common term for this breast feeding is very important thing for babies. Breast feeding can provide new babies with colostrums and other important nutrients that are beneficial for babies stamina in which morbidity and mortality can be reduced especially with neonates. According to Indonesian Government Program, human improvement quality can be achieved through among others breast feeding program including colostrums. Therefore, the position of Maternity Care hospital is vital for the new baby is not put separately with the mother where the mother can directly give breast feeding to her new baby.

This research is aimed at finding out factors associated with maternal colostrums for giving birth in a public hospital dr. Agoesdjam District Ketapang. This is an analytical descriptive research with survey method and cross sectional approach. The population is the whole giving birth mothers in dr. Agoesdjam Hospital District Ketapang, with simple random sampling which is 115 mothers. The chi-square with uni-variant and be-variant is used for data analysis.

The research results show that respondents who did not give colostrums is 52.2 %.  With be-variant, variable significantly associated with giving colostrums is education (p = 0.016), type of delivery (p = 0.048), knowledge (p = 0.021), attitude (p = 0.011), the role of family (p = 0.012), the role of health workers (p = 0.036). While variables that are not significantly associated with giving colostrums are age (p = 0.789) , and parity (p = 0.497).

It is recommended that dr. Agoesdjam Hospital can provide training with regard to management of lactation for health workers regularly, provide lactation clinic in the hospital to give intensive guidance and motivation on colostrums – breast feeding to the mothers, and apply the early initiation program to each giving birth mother.

Keyword         : giving colostrums, maternity, newborn.

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