IMMUNIZATION FLASHCARD: EFFECTIVE AS AN EDUCATION MEDIA FOR POSYANDU cadres IN SURAKARTA

Abstract

Immunization coverage at the world level has decreased from 2019 to 2021. Based on WHO data in 2021, as many as 25 million children did not receive complete basic immunization. In Indonesia, a similar thing happened where basic immunization coverage also decreased from 2019 to 2021. Immunization is an important health intervention in efforts to improve children's health status. The level of basic immunization coverage in children can be influenced, in part, by the attitudes and behavior of health workers, where the behavior of health workers cannot be separated from the role of cadres as midwives in the successful achievement of immunization coverage. This research is a quasi-experimental study with a one group pre-test, post-test design. The intervention in this study used flash cards as an educational medium used by cadres, while to determine the level of knowledge of respondents it was measured using a questionnaire. The population in this study were all posyandu cadres under the Pajang Community Health Center area, Surakarta City. Meanwhile, the sample in this study was posyandu cadres who met the inclusion criteria which had been calculated using a formula and obtained 45 respondents. Sampling was carried out using the purposive sampling method. The statistical results of the Wilcoxon test show that there is a significant difference in knowledge between before education and after education based on the asymp.sig value, namely p = 0.000. This shows that flash cards used as educational media about immunization can have an effect on increasing respondents' knowledge.