Hubungan Dukungan Keluarga Terhadap Manajemen Laktasi Pada Ibu Bekerja: The Relationship of Family Support to the Management of Lactation in Working Mothers

Arlia Purwaningsih (Universitas Riau)
Oswati Hasanah (Universitas Riau)
Wasisto Utomo (Universitas Riau)

NERS Jurnal Keperawatan
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2013): NJK Volume 9, Number 2

The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between family support and lactation management among working mothers. This research was a descriptive correlation with cross sectional approach, conducted among 35 working mothers who work as a nurse in Arifin Achmad Hospital in Pekanbaru taken with total sampling. A set of valid and reliable questionnaire used to collect the data. The results showed a weak positive correlation in different direction between family support and lactation management (r= 0.295), with P value= 0,086 (> 0,05), this resulst indicates that there was no significant correlation between two variable. This result suggest a nurse as a working mother to improve their social environment while breastfeeding to motivate, persuade, and support them on performing optimal lactation management.