CORRELATION BETWEEN AGE, EDUCATION AND FAMILIES SUPPORT WITH EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING ON WORKING MOTHERSAT RAWASARI PUBLIC HEALTH CENTER 2016

Abstract

Exclusive breastfeeding is given to newborns up to the age of 6 months without giving food and beverage assistant (including orange juice, honey, sugar water). The achievement of exclusive breastfeeding in Indonesia has not reached the expected number of 80%, based on the report of SDKI achievement of exclusive breastfeeding in 2012 that reach of 42%. This research is a quantitative research with cross sectional study design with the total samples of 71 respondents working mothers with infants aged 7-12 months, which aims to describe the relationship between age, education and family support to exclusive breastfeeding in Rawasari Public Health Center 2016. The sampling technique used was a proportional random sampling. The results of the analysis using the chi-square test showed from 71 respondents who researched consists of 50.7% had good family support to exclusive breastfeeding and the others of respondents consisist of 49.3% had less family support. From this study, there was no significant relationship between age (p-value = 1.000) and education (p-value = 1.000) with exclusive breastfeeding, while family support has a significant relationship with a p-value = 0,000. The working mothers can increase their knowledge or get information about exclusive breastfeeding and appropriate feeding techniques, both in print and electronic media as well as follow special health counseling on exclusive breastfeeding.