ABSTRACT

Background: Giving additional food that has a good quality is important for children's physical and intellectual development. However, based on the previous study, two of the six mothers who had a 6-23 months baby had already given the additional food to a baby whose age was under six months old. The accuracy in giving the additional food is influenced by several factors such as age, education, occupation, income, knowledge, source of information, and family support.

Aim: This study aims to reveal the relation between age, education, occupation, income, knowledge, source of information, and family support and the accuracy in giving the additional food.

Method: This study applied an observational analytic research design with a cross-sectional plan. The sampling in this study was taken with Cluster sampling, and the bivariate analysis was used chi-square.

Result: There were 46 Respondents in this study. The data was collected directly from the respondent by using a valid and reliable questionnaire. The hypothesis test to reveal the correlation between variables used the chi-square analysis. From the data analysis, factors that did not have a relation toward the accuracy in giving the additional food were age (p=0.170), education (p=0.315), occupation (p=0.723), income (p=0.240), knowledge (p=0.498), source of information (p=0.461). At the same time, the factor that had a relation with accuracy in giving the additional food was the family support (p=0.006) (p<0.05).

Conclusion: There is no relation between age, education, occupation, income, knowledge, source of information toward the accuracy in giving the additional food, and there is the relation between the family support and the accuracy in giving the additional food at maternal and child health center Sorosutahn Sub District. It is expected that the mother can be active in searching for information from non-health workers or from health workers about giving accurate additional food.

Keyword: Accuracy, Additional food, age, education, occupation, income, knowledge, source of information, and family support