Vol 1, No 5, May-, 2021
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In his research, (Yudi, 2008) stated that there was a statistical significance with a
value of p = 0.025 by testing the hypothesis that there was a relationship between
mother's knowledge and nutritional status of babies aged 6- 24 months in her research
conducted in 2017 entitled "The ties of socio-cultural aspects with status. nutrition of
babies aged 6- 24 months in Medan Zona Subdistrict, Medan City. "The socio-cultural
aspects studied in this research are learning, work and knowledge of mothers and fathers
and family income and family traditions.
(Rahayu, 2017) research in 2017, entitled Characteristics of mothers who
distribute exclusive breastfeeding with the nutritional status of their toddlers, found that
there was a significant relationship between the mother's level of knowledge and the
nutritional status of her toddler with p value 0, 019 (p & lt; 0, 05). In this research it was
concluded that mothers with low levels of knowledge so that mothers do not share
exclusive breastfeeding and have babies with poor nutritional status as much as 15.1%.
(Rachmadewi & Khomsan, 2009) in her research in 2019 in her research,
Knowledge, behavior, and exclusive breastfeeding practice and nutritional status of
children aged 4- 12 months in rural and urban areas, it is concluded that the knowledge of
mother's nutrition has a positive relationship with the nutritional behavior of mothers in
rural or urban areas. Aspects that are significantly related to the knowledge of nutrition
for mothers in rural areas are the mother's age, work status, and previous breastfeeding
experience. An aspect that is significantly related to the nutritional behavior of mothers in
rural areas is work status. In urban areas, only the mother's level of learning is
significantly related to the mother's level of knowledge and nutritional behavior. The
comparison of this research with this research is not only from the objectives that
describe the condition of urban and rural areas and the use of information analysis
techniques is the difference test is tried using the independent t-test, chi-square test, and
Fishers exact test. The bonds between variables were analyzed using the Spearman
correlation test. All tests were tried at the 5% real level (α). In this research, the bond
between knowledge and behavior affecting breast milk was analyzed and a significant
bond was obtained (p = 0.004), whereas in this study the bond was not analyzed.
This research is also in line with the results of research entitled "Effect of
mother's education on children's nutritional status in the slums of Nairobi" by (Abuya,
Ciera, & Kimani-Murage, 2012), conclusions were obtained through binomial and
multiple logistic regression tests where a significant relationship was obtained if Mother's
knowledge is a strong predictor of the nutritional status of her toddler (p = 0.001). For
(Istiono, Suryadi, & Haris, 2009), in his research entitled Analysis of the factors that
influence the nutritional status of infants where the independent variables are the mother's
job, father's job, infant disease, food expenditure, non-food expenditure, parenting, access
to health, hygiene and area sanitation and knowledge, behavior and attitudes of mothers,
it was concluded that there was no significant relationship between all aspects of these
effects and the nutritional status of children. The insignificance of the research results
was caused by errors in illustration taking and could also be caused by misuse of
information analysis.
The results of this research are not in line with the results of research by Mashal
in 2018 entitled "Factors associated with the health and nutritional status of children
under 5 years of age in Afghanistan: family behavior related to women and past
experience of war-related hardships". if the mother's low level of knowledge, marriage at
an early age, low expertise of the mother, the reduction in the amount of supply needed
by the family every day, and displacement have a significant negative relationship with
the health status and nutritional status of children in this country who are facing a period
of conflict in a long