PARENTING SKILL TRAINING IMPROVES PARENTS KNOWLEDGE HOW TO MONITOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

admin_ojs admin_ojs; Andi Lis Garming; Joko Sapto Pramono; Emmy Putri Wahyuni

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Andi Lis Garming Doctoral Program in Public Health Faculty, Hasanuddin University, Makassar, Indonesia
Joko Sapto Pramono Department of Nursing, Health Polytechnic East Borneo, Samarinda, Indonesia
Emmy Putri Wahyuni Student of Master Program in Nursing Faculty, Jakarta Muhammadiyah University, Jakarta, Indonesia

Abstract

Abstract
Monitoring Growth and development is very important, ideally every child should receive growth and development monitoring from trained health personnel on a regular basis to find out if there is a delay, this is to prevent further growth and development disorders and consequently difficult to treat. However, the unbalanced ratio of the number of health workers and children in Indonesia causes growth and development monitoring activities to be not optimal. This type of research is quantitative with a quasi-experimental method and a pre-test and post-test control group design. This study was randomly divided into two groups. The sample size in this study was 50 respondents who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Both groups were conducted pre-test and post-test. Then the data was analyzed by using the Wilcoxon test, a p-value of 0,000 was obtained, so that Parenting Skill Training increases parents' knowledge about how to monitor Child Growth and Development. In this case, it is necessary to provide assistance to parents to monitor the growth and development of children every month.
Keywords: Growth, development, parenting skills, preschool children