The Relationship Between Providing Health Education With A Learning Model Using Social Media on The Knowledge of Stunting Prevention Among Childbearing Age Women

Abstract

Health education is an effort to make the actions of individuals, groups, or communities a positive influence in maintaining and improving health. Education for women of childbearing age plays an important role for knowledge about stunting because it will prevent early stunting for women of childbearing age. Stunting is a condition of failure to thrive in children under five years old caused by long-term malnutrition that causes children to be too short for their age. This study aims to determine the relationship of providing health education with a learning model using social media on the knowledge of women of childbearing age about stunting prevention. This type of research has used a quantitative approach. This research method uses pre-experiment method with one group pre-test and post-test design. Respondents 47 women of childbearing age who were at STIKes Baitul Hikmah. The results of statistical tests using SPSS through the Wilcoxon test obtained the results of Asymp. Sig 0.000 or p value = 0.000 (<0.05) which means Ha is accepted, it can be concluded that there is a relationship between health education with a learning model using social media on the knowledge of women of childbearing age about stunting prevention.