Hubungan Perilaku Hidup Sehat Orang Tua dan Literasi Kartu Menuju Sehat (KMS) terhadap Tumbuh Kembang Balita

Abstract

The growth and development status of children was been seen from nutritional status and
cognitive and psychomotor aspects of children aged 0 to 5 years and child will automatically
follow behaviour of their parent’s lives. Aside from being a source of child health
information, in the KMS book there was also information on children's weight and height
graphic data obtained from the Posyandu scales. To determine the influence of healthy living
behaviors of parents and KMS book, literacy towards the growth and development status of
babies-toddlers. The study design was correlative with the type of cross-sectional study, the
the sample was 49 respondents, data collection techniques used healthy life behavior
questionnaires and KMS book literacy and observations and records from the results of
measurements of growth and development status of infants-toddlers in January 2020, and
data analysis using Pearson Correlation test. The healthy behavior of parents and KMS book
literacy influenced the growth and development status babies-toddlers. The cognitive aspects
of the community were able to read the KMS chart and find out the meaning of the KMS
chart to monitor the weight and nutritional status of babies-toddlers. In the psychomotor
aspect, people began to realize the importance of giving breast milk for >6 months and
cooking their own food. The suggestion was need for more intensive mentoring to Posyandu
administrators to increase KMS literacy and be able to teach it to all families.