RELATIONSHIP OF MOTHER’S KNOWLEDGE ABOUT POLIO IMMUNIZATION WITH MOTHER’S BEHAVIOR POST INFANT’S POLIO IMMUNIZATION IN VILLAGE MANCANG COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS SELESAI- LANGKAT 2014

Abstract

The breast-milk that comes out when the baby is aged 0-3 months contain antipoliomilities high levels of substances that can neutralize the virus polio vaccine in the gut of children thus inhibiting the formation of an antibody. The mothers do not know that breastfeeding soon after giving polio immunization may affect the effectiveness of the polio immunization given by mouth. The aim of research to determine the relationship of mother knowledge about polio immunization with the mother's behavior post infant’s polio immunization in Mancang village Community Health Centers Selesai Langkat. There ara 54 mothers as the samples who comes to immunizing infants aged 0-3 months, using purposive sampling. Data were analyzed using Fisher's Exact. Results of this study found that the majority of mothers were both knowledgeable and well behaved post polio immunization in infants 13 people (24.07%), and mothers who are less knowledgeable and less behaved 38 people (70.38). There is a significant relationship between mothers knowledge and behavior after the polio immunization, evidenced by the value of p = 0.000. Conclusions from this research is a relationship between mothers knowledge and behavior after the polio immunization because lower knowledge and behavior of the mothers are also getting less. Therefore, health workers are expected to provide information about polio immunization so that the knowledge and behavior to be better mothers .