Case Study Parents' Efforts In Preventing Acute Respiratory Infection In Toddlers

Abstract

Prevention of acute respiratory infection (ARI) in toddlers by parents will work well if the parents have an
ability. Lack of information and motivation for the parents impacts on poor parents' ability in preventing ARI
which impacts on ARI, pneumonia, and even disorders of childhood growth and development. This study
aimed at identifying parents' efforts in preventing ARI in toddlers.
Design of this research was descriptive. Variable was prevention effort of acute respiratory infection.
Population and sample were parents who had toddler (1 to 3-year-old child) and resided in Endrosono Urban
Village, Surabaya City, East Java Province, and they were 25 parents. Sampling technique was total sampling.
Measuring instrument was questionnaire. Measuring instrument in this research was questionnaire, data in this
research were analyzed by frequency distribution.
Research results showed that most of the parents who had toddlers 19 parents (76%) had good prevention
efforts. The biggest parents who have good ability are 56% housewives and 64% high school education. Most
of the efforts of families who work as housewives and have high school education in preventing ARI have
good abilities. Most of the efforts of parents' family had good ability. Improving family efforts in good
preventing can be conducted by the parents through getting appropriate and easy information to be understood.
In other words, improving parents' motivation can be through improving the efforts of parents' ability in
preventing based on the procedures.