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Lay Health Workers Empowerment on Reducing Stunting

Prevalence Through Family

Laili Rahayuwati, Ikeu Nurhidayah, Desy Indra Yani, Sri Hendrawati, Kusman Ibrahim, Raden Nabilah Putri Fauziyyah

Faculty of Nursing Universitas Padjadjaran

raden16006@mail.unpad.ac.id

Table 5. Mean of Family Resilience-Related Behaviors Among
INTRODUCTION Table 2 shows that almost all lay health workers had good Families with Children Under Five Years in Garut and Tasikmalaya

knowledge at the pretest (84.0%), and a small proportion of lay

health workers had poor knowledge at the pretest (1.7%). It is also Regencies (n=1697)
Stunting becomes the focus of attention in Indonesia. The family is

essential to form excellent and quality human resources free from found that almost all lay health workers had good knowledge in the
posttest (93.3%), and there was an increase in knowledge between

stunting. In providing family facilitations to overcome stunting, lay pretest and posttest.

health workers (LWH) play crucial roles. This study aimed to empower

Table 2. Knowledge of Lay Health Workers in Garut and
LWH in stunting prevention through family resilience.
Tasikmalaya Regencies (n=119)

METHODS

The research used a quasi-experiment, one-group pretest-posttest

design. The population was LHW who were active in posyandu and

families with children under five years old who were willing to join this

program. The sample was 119 LHWs, and 1,697 families obtaining

using the cluster sampling technique. Empowerment was carried out

through health education for a one-day training and thrice virtual Table 3. Mean of Stunting Knowledge Pre-test and Post-test Among DISCUSSION

mentorings via LHW chat. LHW helped families perform family Lay health Worker in Garut and Tasikmalaya Regencies (n=119) The results of this study are in line with several previous studies that

resilience-related behaviours for a month by providing education for stated that, on average, lay health workers possess good knowledge

30-45 minutes, and thrice home visits mentoring and followings-up. after being empowered through counseling or health education

(18,19). The pretest and posttest activities showed a significant

RESULT difference in the increase in knowledge of lay health workers with p-

value = 0.022, with a difference in the average value between the

pretest and posttest measurements that were equal to 0.218. It
The results showed that almost all LHW had good knowledge at showed that training, counseling, or health education could provide

the pretest (84.0%) and posttest (93.3%). It was revealed that the distribution to lay health workers to increase their knowledge. These

total score of knowledge of LHW at the pretest (M = 10.63, SD = Table 4 shows that lay health workers with good posttest knowledge results are also in line with the results of previous studies conducted

1.16) was significantly higher than the score at post-test (M = scores were lay health workers with a junior secondary education by Solehati et al. (2018); Ermayani et al. (2019); Andajani (2019);

10.85, SD = 1.09) (p = .002). The family had average scores of background (54.1%) and those who attended training (53.2%). and Kusumastuti et al. (2019), which show that there are significant

healthy homes, healthy toddlers, and active visits to posyandu at Table 4. Crosstab of Demographic Data and Post-test Stuting differences between the results of the lay health worker’s knowledge

17.86, 7.29, and 0.56.
Knowledge Among Lay Health Workers in Garut and Tasikmalaya at the pretest and at the posttest that had increased knowledge (20–

Regencies (n=119) 22).

Table 1. Demographic Data of Lay Health Workers in Garut and CONCLUCION

Tasikmalaya Regencies (n=119)

This study's results showed a shred of strong evidence for the

effectiveness of empowerment. Therefore, all related parties must

continuously provide health education and motivation to LHW to

continue to play a role in public health.

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