Participant Modeling Towards Mother's Knowledge and Skills About Multisensory Stimulation in Infant

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10.2991/inc-17.2017.29How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Health Education, Participant Modeling, Multisensory Stimulation, Mother's Knowledge and Skills

Abstract

Participant modeling may be the optimal approach in health education with the rational, modeling, guided participation, and reinforcement. Multisensory stimulation is very important for the growth and development of the baby, so the mother's knowledge and skills are indispensable to maximize baby's multisensory stimulation. The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of health education: participant modeling towards mother's knowledge and skills about multisensory stimulation in infant. This study was quasi-experimental pretest-posttest with control group design and using purposive sampling. Total population were 140 mothers and obtained 64 samples who determined by inclusion criteria. The data collected by questionnaire and observation and then analyzed by Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test and Mann-Whitney U Test. Independent variable is health education and dependent variables are technical and interpersonal skills. The result showed that the differences knowledge between group's treatment (p=0.005) and control (p=0.039). The differences between technical skill (p=0,028) in control group, technical skill (p=0.003) and interpersonal skill (p=0.002) in treatment group. There was no difference in interpersonal skill of control group (0,212). There were differences between treatment and control groups, knowledge (p=0.019), technical skills (p=0.013), and interpersonal skills (p=0.020). Participant modeling consists of rational, modeling, guided participation, and reinforcement were effective in improving mother's knowledge and skills in infants's multisensory stimulation, furthermore nurses can socialize health education: participant modeling to mothers about the importance of infant's multisensory stimulation for assisting the growth and development.

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AU  - Ilya Krisnana
AU  - Hidayat Arifin
AU  - Iqlima Dwi Kurnia
PY  - 2017/04
DA  - 2017/04
TI  - Participant Modeling Towards Mother's Knowledge and Skills About Multisensory Stimulation in Infant
BT  - Proceedings of the 8th International Nursing Conference on Education, Practice and Research Development in Nursing (INC 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 112
EP  - 115
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/inc-17.2017.29
DO  - 10.2991/inc-17.2017.29
ID  - Krisnana2017/04
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