Authors : Eka Sityani Abianingsih, Liza Pristianty and Ika Ratna Hidayati
Abstract: Every year >1.4 million child die due to some of various diseases that actually can be prevent by immunization. Immunization is an effort by giving immunity to prevent infectious diseases. Infant an toddlers are the most suspectible period to struck a disease. In a fact, there are many children who have uncomplete basic immunization so this research has been done to know the correlation between the level of parents knowledge and the completeness status of their children basic immunization. The parents knowledge and comprehension of the important of basic immunization helps their children to get complete basic immunization. This research is descriptive research with cross sectional. The statistical population and sample are parents that escort their children aged 1-5 year old to posyandu in Dinoyo primary helath care working area and also fulfill the inclusion criteria. Sample has been taken by using cluster sampling method with 98 respondentrs and by using research instrument in the form of questionnaire with Guttman scale which given to parents for observe the level of parents knowledge about basic immunization and to know the status of their children basic immunization. The questionnaire validity had been assesment by approval the content of the validity and Cronbach’s alpha questionnaire realibilty with level of knowledge 0.927. Questionnaire analyzed by using SPPS Version 18. The result of this research show that the majority of the respondents (61 parents) have a good level in knowledgement of basic immunization with 16 children have uncomplete basic immunization and 45 children have complete basic immunization. With the result of this research, the health workers expected be more active to give counseling and information about basic immunization to the society and parents expected to improve a knowledgement of basic immunization with more actively looking for counseling and information from health worker about basic immunization.
Eka Sityani Abianingsih, Liza Pristianty and Ika Ratna Hidayati, 2017. Relationship between the Level of Parent’s Knowledgement about Complete Basic Immunization in Children with Complete Basic Immunization. Research Journal of Medical Sciences, 11: 85-88.