Judul: Keberlanjutan dampak penyuluhan gizi terhadap perilaku gizi ibu dan kualitas pelayanan posyandu
Abstrak: Integrated Service Center Post (Posyandu) is spearheading the early detection and the first services in prevention of malnutrition in Indonesia. In terms of quality, there are barriers that often occur in the implementation of activities posyandu is weak “Communication, Information, and Nutrition Education” programs which is one of the cornerstone in nutrition programs at posyandu. Besides the quality of cadres that still low because of the training received still lessalso the educational levels are low, so that cadres can not given education to mothers posyandu users. Thus, the specific objective of this study were to:(1) Identified the characteristics of mother and children under five years in posyandu; (2) analyzed impact‟s sustainability of nutrition education to knowledge, attitudes, and practices of mothers toddler in posyandu; (3) analyzed correlations of health history and nutritional status children‟s under five; (4) analyzed correlations of knowledge, participation of cadres, and service quality in posyandu; (5) analyzed the impact‟s sustainability of nutrition education to service quality of posyandu; (6) analyzed the sustainability of nutrition education program in posyandu. The design in this study was quasi-experimental. This study is part of the researchs in collaboration with Nestle Foundation (NF) entitled “A Multi- Approach Intervention to Empower Posyandu Nutrition Program to Combat Malnutrition Problem in Rural Areas” (Khomsan et al. 2012). Location of the study is Sukajadi and Sukaluyu village, Tamansari District, Bogor Regency, West Java was conducted in January 2012 until September 2013. The villages were allocated simples randomly as control and intervention group. Nutrition education given to mother‟s toddler and cadre of posyandu was 6 times with frequency 2 times in one month. Data collection consisted of baseline (before intervention), endline (after intervention), and follow-up (four months after endline). Data was analyzed descriptively using Microsoft Excell 2007 and inferentialy using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) by SPSS 16 softwarer. The results showed that nutritional education impacts to knowledge, attitudes, and practices of mother‟s toddler was significant (p<0,05). Trend change scores tend to declined at follow-up. However, these showed better than baseline. Therefore, it can be said that nutrition educatioan was sustainable. The results showed that most of the mothers toddler in intervention group (93,3%) expressed a desire to stay abreast/ bring the child to the age of five-yearold child to posyandu at the time of the endline. The ANOVA results indicated a difference in the planned visit to the posyandu to five-year-old childs at baseline and endline in the intervention group (p<0.05). This means education of participation posyandu in the form of motivational visit to posyandu was able to increased the knowledge about the importance posyandu. So, desire of mother toddler to keep abreast posyandu was increased. Based on health status, toddlers in the control group and the intervention had a history of disease respiratory infection was higher than the fever, diarrhea, skin diseases, and other (smallpox and convulsions). Nutrition and health educations given to cadres and mothers toddlers whose were indirectly able to change the trend of the respiratory infection incidences. The results showed that a decline in 1-month history of respiratory infection in the intervention group to
Keyword: nutriton education, nutrition behavior, service quality, posyandu, sustainability

Judul: Kasus: Posyandu Kembang Tulip, Jorong Kubu Baru, Maninjau, Kecamatan Tanjung Raya, Kabupaten Agam, Sumatera Barat
Abstrak: Permasalahan serta isu terkait pelayanan kesehatan publik di Indonesia hingga saat ini masih belum terselesaikan sepenuhnya. Pemerintah terus berupaya mengatasi permasalahan ini, salah satunya melalui posyandu. Keberlanjutan atau efektivitas posyandu sebagai kelembagaan lokal dipengaruhi oleh faktor kepuasan masyarakat dalam hal ini ibu bayi dan balita. Salah satu faktor yang berhubungan dengan kepuasan pelayanan adalah persepsi sebagai cara untuk mengevaluasi peran posyandu. Sementara itu, persepsi pun dapat terbentuk dari budaya setempat masyarakat. Oleh karena itu, tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis hubungan persepsi mutu pelayanan posyandu dengan tingkat kepuasan ibu bayi dan balita. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat hubungan yang signifikan di antara kedua variabel yaitu persepsi dengan tingkat kepuasan ibu bayi dan balita pada 5 dimensi persepsi yang terdiri dari dimensi tangibles (bukti fisik), reliability (kehandalan), responsiveness (daya tanggap), assurance (jaminan), dan empathy (perhatian), Problems and issues related to public health services in Indonesia have not been fully resolved. The government continuously overcome this problem, one of the solution is through posyandu. The sustainability and effectiveness of posyandu as a local institution was being influenced by community satisfaction factors, in this case the mothers and toddlers. One of the service satisfaction’s factor is a perception to evaluate the role of posyandu. Meanwhile, perceptions can also be formed from the local culture of the community. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to analyze the correlation between perceptions of posyandu service’s quality and level of satisfaction of mothers and toddlers. The results of the study show that there was a significant correlation between the two variables, namely perceptions and the level of satisfaction of mothers of infants and toddlers on 5 perception dimensions consisting of tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance and empathy.
Keyword: local culture, perception, posyandu, satisfaction, service quality

Judul: Embriogenesis ikan buta (Astyanax fasciatus)
Abstrak: Ikan buta Astyanax fasciatus adalah spesies ikan unik dari famili Characidae yang menempati perairan dalam gua di Wilayah La Cueva Chica-San Luis Potasi-Mexico. Ikan ini memiliki mata yang tereduksi (Blind Cavefish) dan warna kulit merah muda, pucat serta mengkilap.
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