THE CORRELATION BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDETOWARDSCHILD BOOSTER IMMUNIZATIONATPUBLIC HEALTH CENTER (PHC) OF SUNGAI ULIN BANJARBARU

Hasanah, Noor and Husaini, Husaini (2015) THE CORRELATION BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDETOWARDSCHILD BOOSTER IMMUNIZATIONATPUBLIC HEALTH CENTER (PHC) OF SUNGAI ULIN BANJARBARU. PROCEEDINGS International Seminar and Workshop on Public Health Action "Building Healthy Community".

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Abstract

One of the indicators of the successfull immunization program is the achievement of Universal Child Immunization (UCI). Indonesia has been hit the target UCI, where at least 80% of children in each village have acquired complete basic immunization before the age of one year, but there are still many children in Indonesia who have not been given boosterimmunization or repeated immunization in children under age of 3. This study was conducted to determine the correlation between mothers’ knowledge and attitudes to childbooster immunizationat Public Health Center (PHC) of Sungai Ulin Banjarbaru South Kalimantan Province in 2015. The study wasobservational analytic method with the cross sectional approach. The study population was all the mothers who have children aged 18-36 months who are in the working area of Public Health Center (PHC)of Sungai Ulin. The samples were 86 people which were taken by sampling technique intentional. The result showed the knowledge of mothers towards child Booster immunization who have a good understanding is 11 respondents (12.8%), and pretty well is 52 respondents (60.5%), while for less understanding is 23 respondents (26.7%). Mothers’ attitude toward child Booster immunization has received the majority of positive attitude as many as 64 respondents (74.4%), and who have a negative attitude is as many as 22 respondents (25.6%). Based on the results of the Chi Square test, it was found that there is a significant correlation between knowledgein chil Booster immunization of the mothers with p-value = 0.000. In the mother's attitude towardsin childBooster immunization p-value= 0.000. There is correlation between the mothers’ knowledge in childbooster immunization and the attitude of the mother to child booster immunization. We hope that mothers can improve knowledge and attitudes about the importance of Booster immunization so that mothers can bring their children to public health services. Keywords : Knowledge, Attitude, Child Booster Immunization

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