Analysis of Some Factors That Influence the Performance of the Cadre in Improving Exclusive Breastfeeding

Abstract

One effort to realize a healthy Indonesian society is by empowering the community through cadres. Cadres are expected to be able to bridge health workers with the community and support the success of exclusive breastfeeding. Furthermore this study determine the factors that influence the performance of cadres in increasing the coverage of exclusive breastfeeding. This study was an observational analytic study with aapproach cross sectional. The study sample was a health cadre in the Blora Health Center area. The independent variables in this study are factors that influence cadre performance including the level of knowledge, attitude, motivation, breastfeeding training. The dependent variable in this study is the performance of cadres in improving the performance of exclusive breastfeeding. Through proportional random sampling, subjects were chosen from 18 villages in Public Health Services in Blora district. There is 180 respondents interviewed based on questioners. Design used is Cross sectional and analysed using SPSS system. Because data on categorical variables, then the bivariate analysis use chi square in CI 95% and multivariate analysis use multiple logistic regression. There was a positive and statistically significant influence between knowledge and cadre performance (p 0,000 <0,05; OR 12,227; CI 95% 4,902-30,499) and training with cadre performance (p 0,000 <0,05; OR = 22,788; CI 95% 5,831-89,050). There was no significant effect between attitudes (p 0.859> 0.05) and motivation (p 0.260> 0.05) on cadre performance.