Psychoeducation on Maternal Mental Health Literacy: A Stunting Prevention Strategy in Madura

Abstract

The Problem of Stunting is currently still the focus and attention of the Indonesian government. Stunting is a problem of chronic malnutrition in growth disorder of children, namely the child height is lower or shorter than the age standard. Bangkalan Regency is one of 38 regencies in East Java province which first ranks with a high prevalence of stunting at 38.9%. Participants in this research were Family Assistance Teams, called TPK, which accompanies families with stunting. This research aims to determine the effectiveness of interventions to increase maternal mental health literacy among the TPK member to prevent stunting cases. Collecting data uses Mental Health Literacy Questionnaire. The research method uses quasi experimental by psychoeducational treatment to the subject group. This Research hypothesis was tested using the paired sample t-test. The results show that psycoeducation has proven effective to increasing maternal mental health literacy among TPK members. The Significance value (2-tailed) is 0.028, which means therea is difference in the level of maternal mental health literacy before and after treatment. This research provides information regarding the importance of psychoeducation about mental health literacy to prevent stunting