Health Education With Video Increases Compliance With Exclusive Breastfeeding Among Mothers

Abstract

The prevalence of breastfeeding in Indonesia is still low. This is due to low public awareness of the importance of breastfeeding, socio-cultural factors, lack of knowledge among pregnant women, families, and the community about the importance of breastfeeding, and incomplete support for increasing breastfeeding. This issue is exacerbated by the continuous promotion of infant formula. A mother's knowledge about breastfeeding plays a crucial role as it can increase compliance with breastfeeding. One effort to enhance mothers' knowledge and compliance with exclusive breastfeeding is through health education with video. This study aims to determine whether there is an effect of health education with video on mothers' compliance with exclusive breastfeeding. The research design used is pre-experimental with a one-group pre-test post-test design to compare mothers' compliance with exclusive breastfeeding before and after being provided with health education through video. This research was conducted from June to July 2023. The sample size of 30 respondents was calculated using the Slovin formula. The results of the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test showed a Sig. (2-tailed) value of 0.000 < 0.05, indicating that there is an effect of health education with video on mothers' compliance with exclusive breastfeeding. It is hoped that health education with video can become an alternative learning method to provide more engaging and efficient information that can be accepted by the community, especially for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers