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NOVIA GANDA DEWI ANGGRAENI. 2018. The Influence of FGD (Focus Group Discussion) and PGD (Peer Group Discussion) Method on Supplementary Feeding to The Knowledge Level and Attitudes of Mothers who Have Toddlers Stunting In Sidoluhur Village, Lawang District. Advisor: B. Doddy Riyadi and Tapriadi
Short toddler problems describe chronic nutritional problems. The cause of the short toddler is not only caused by a single factor but is caused by many factors in which the factors are interconnected. One of the factors that affect short is the low nutrient intake. Giving appropriate supplementary feeding and appropriate for a toddler will increase energy intake for toddlers. FGD and PGD methods are activities aimed at changing knowledge and attitude. FGD method and PGD method were chosen because in the implementation the participants were more able to express their opinions or respond to questions without worry. In addition, in the implementation can produce information or ideas more broadly. This study aims to determine whether there is the influence of FGD and PGD methods on supplementary feeding to the level of knowledge and attitude of mothers who have toddlers stunting in Sidoluhur Village.
This research design uses Quasy Experiment design with Two Group Pretest- Posttest Design. The sample of this research is the mother who has toddler Stunting in Sidoluhur Village Lawang District with sample 16 people. The study was conducted from October to November 2017.
The results showed that there was an influence of FGD and PGD methods on increasing the knowledge level and attitude of mothers with stunting on supplementary feeding, but statistically, there was no significant difference between FGD and PGD methods on increasing the level of knowledge and attitude of the mother who has a toddler. FGD method is more influential to the increasing level of knowledge and attitude of the mother who has a toddler compared with the method of PGD because the increase of the average value of knowledge level in FGD group is higher that is 13,1 than in PGD group that is 10,6. Furthermore, the increase in the average attitudinal value in the FGD group was higher at 4.7 than in the PGD group of 3.2.
Given the limited of nutrition workers at community health centers, the PGD method will be better if used in the community because it will facilitate the task of a limited nutrition officer rather than the discussion using the FGD method which is relatively difficult to implement because the facilitator is the nutrition officer itself
Keywords: fgd, pgd, knowledge, attitude, stunting
