International Journal of Social Science
Vol. 5 No. 1: Juni 2025

THE INFLUENCE OF NUTRITIONAL INTERVENTION ON CHANGES IN KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF MOTHERS OF UNDERNUTRITIONED CHILDREN IN THE WORKING AREA OF MANUTAPEN PUSKESMAS

Christine Natalia PS Lehot (Unknown)
Christina Olly Lada (Unknown)
Pius Weraman (Unknown)
Anderias Umbu Roga (Unknown)
Lewi Jutomo (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
26 Jun 2025

Abstract

Nutrition education for mothers and caregivers of toddlers is one of Unicef Indonesia's recommendations to alleviate the problem of stunting, malnutrition and undernutrition in Indonesia. Nutrition education can be done individually or in groups. From the research that has been done, the nutritional education intervention method is proven to be able to increase the knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of mothers of toddlers. Objectives: This study aims to study the effect of nutrition education interventions on improving knowledge and changing attitudes in the form of feeding practices for undernourished mothers at the Manutapen Health Center. Methods: This study used a quasi-experimental design with one group design, with a total sample of 20 respondents. The research instrument used a questionnaire and used the Wilcoxon Signed Rank. Results: The results of the non-parametric analysis using the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test showed that there were significant differences in the knowledge of mothers before and after receiving nutrition education. This is indicated by the significant value of mother's knowledge before and after nutrition education of 0.000 <0.05. Likewise with the attitude of the mother, there was a significant difference in the attitude of the mother before and after receiving nutrition education. This is indicated by the significant value of the mother's attitude before and after nutrition education of 0.000 <0.05. Conclusions: The research results show that there is an influence of nutrition education in the form of counseling and mentoring through short messages on increasing knowledge and changing behavior

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IJSS

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Agriculture, Biological Sciences & Forestry Humanities Computer Science & IT Education Environmental Science Health Professions Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Medicine & Pharmacology Public Health Social Sciences Other

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"IJSS” for International Journal of Sosial Science, published by Bajang Instiute. Published in two formats, printed version of ISSN:2798-3463 and the online version of ISSN:2798-4079, both of which are published six times in one year. The scope of the journal studies broadly includes: Culture (a ...