Pengaruh Pendidikan Perawatan Bayi Baru Lahir dengan Metode Syndicate Group terhadap Pengetahuan Kader Posyandu di Desa Sumberdanti Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Sukowono Kabupaten Jember (The Effect of Newborn Care Education Using Syndicate Group Method to the

Abstract

Newborn (BBL) has a high risk of mortality. It happened because the public’s knowledge and practice
about simple treatments such as prevention of hypothermia, giving colostrum and exclusive
breastfeeding is still very poor. Cadre is one closest person of newborn‘s mother who can affect
maternal behavior, so she can provides a good information to newborn‘s mothers and families when
her knowledge has been good. The aim of this research is to obtain information from the analysis of
the effect in newborn care education by Syndicate Group methods on cadres’ knowledge in
Sumberdanti village. This research used pre-experimental method with one group pretest-post test
design that used 24 cadres’ of Sumberdanti Village who registered by the village midwife. Before
getting intervention, there were 50% cadres who belong to category of having enough knowledge
and there were 58.3% cadres who belong to the category of having good knowledge after getting
intervention. Analysis of hypothesis used Wilcoxon Signed Rank test with α = 0.05 which obtained p
value = 0.001, indicating a significant effect of newborn care education by Syndicate Group method
on cadres’ knowledge. Hopefully, the Sukowono Public Health Center and the midwives can continue
improving the cadres’ knowledge by interactive methods such as Syndicate Group and other
methods, so that their role can be more optimal.
Keywords: Posyandu Cadres, Knowledge Of Newborn Care, Syndicate Group Method