THE INFLUENCE OF THE ROLE OF NURSE EDUCATORS ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF FAMILIES WITH STUNTING CHILDREN IN THE WORKING AREA OF THE SEI PANCUR HEALTH CENTER, BATAM CITY, 2022

Abstract

Stunting is a condition in which children under five fail to grow which looks short compared to their age. In Batam, stunting incidents in 2021 amounted to 3,367 children and based on the highest prevalence in the Sei Pancur Public Health Center Work Area, there were 548 children. Many factors cause stunting, one of which is that families have not been able to care for toddlers independently. The role of family nurse educator is expected to be able to make the family independent. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the role of nurse educators on the independence of families with stunting children under five years. This study uses a quasi- experimental pretest-posttest design without control group design with health education interventions. The population of this study were families with stunting children under five years is 123 families, samples were taken using purposive sampling technique is 55 respondents. The research was conducted in Duriangkang Village. Data were collected using the SOP Extension checklist sheet for the role of nurse educator and observation sheet for family independence, then processed and analyzed using the Wilcoxon test, the result is value the average family independence before the intervention was 1.33 and after the intervention was 3.09. There is significant difference between family independence before and after intervention (p.value 0.000 <0.05) means that there is an influence of the role of nurse educators on the independence of families with stunting children under five years in the Sei Pancur Public Health Center Work Area Batam City. Nurses are expected to carry out their educational role through the act of providing health education well and for further researchers to examine the roles of other family nurses such as counselors, facilitators, advocates and care givers and apply the concepts in this study, namely the integration of Orem's self-care theory with Green's behavior change theory. in other chronic diseases.