Pengaruh Media Audiovisual terhadap Pengetahuan Ibu tentang Status Gizi Lebih Pada Balita
Abstract
Malnutrition is a disease that can be life-threatening, so it is a health problem that must be treated immediately. Around 2.8 million people die every year, Aceh is in the top 10 provinces that have children with more nutritional status in Indonesia and Lhokseumawe City is in 8th position at the Regency/City level. This problem can be overcome by increasing mothers' knowledge of using audiovisual media, this media involves the senses of sight and hearing which are able to provide optimal results.The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of audiovisual media against Mother's knowledge of more nutritional status in toddlers in the Lhokseumawe Puskesmas. The research method used is a quasi experiment using the design of One Group pretest-posttest design. The population in this study were 93 mothers who had children with more nutritional status and taken total sampling. Data was collected using the questionnaire sheet. The results of this study showed the increased knowledge of the mother's majority in the category either after the intervention. The use of audiovisual media affects knowledge based on the Wilcoxon test with a value of 0.000 (p <0.05). The conclusion of this study was that there is an influence of audiovisual media on mothers' knowledge about the nutritional status of toddlers at the Lhokseumawe City Health Center.