Faktor-Faktor Yang Berhubungan Dengan Pemberian Vitamin A Pada Balita di Posyandu Flamboyan Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Rawasari

Abstract

Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin found first. Vitamin A is essential for maintaining the
health and survival. Around the world in preschool children is estimated there are around 6-7
million new cases of vitamin A deficiency every year, approximately 10% of them suffer from
corneal damage. Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of blindness is most often found in
children and make 250000-500000 children become blind each year, and half of them will die
within the year. Approximately another 150 million children face an increased risk of death in
childhood due to an infectious disease caused by vitamin A status is not adequate.
The purpose of this study to determine the factors associated with the provision of
vitamin A in Toddlers in Posyandu Flamboyan eorking area ofPuskesmas Rawasari.Desain is
cross sectional study. Population and sample are mothers who have children under five in Sub
Flamboyan IHC Rawasari totaling 53 people. The sampling technique total sampling. Data
analysis is done in stages, namely univariate and bivariate.
The results showed that 77.4% of respondents have a good behavior by giving vitamin A
toddler on schedule, 52.8% of respondents have good knowledge about vitamin A in infants,
54.7% of respondents have a good perception of the administration of vitamin A in infants,
56.6% of respondents have a high motivation in giving vitamin A in young children, there is a
significant relationship between knowledge by administering vitamin A in infants seen from pvalue of 0.047, there is a significant relationship between the perception by giving vitamin A in
infants views of p- value of 0.024 and there is a significant relationship between motivation and
the provision of vitamin A in infants seen from p-value of 0.019.