The Relationship Between Maternal Knowledge About Lactation Management and Behavior in Breast Feeding In Kedaton Health Center Bandar Lampung

Breastfeeding is the right of every mother even for mothers who work as a farmers, traders, civilengineering, or private employees. The implementation of breasfeeding can be done properly andcorrectly if there is complete information about the benefits of breast milk and breastfeeding alsolactation management. Exclusive breastfeeding can be inhibited by a number of things such as lowmaternal and family knowledge about the benefits of breast milk, correct breastfeeding, lack of lactationcounseling services, socio-cultural factors, incessant marketing of formula milk, lack of support fromhealth workers and maternal working. This study aims to determine the relationship between maternalknowledge about lactation management and behavior in the provisionof breast milk in the workingareas of the Health Center, Penengahan Raya Kedaton Village Bandar Lampung. This study useddescriptive correlation design with cross sectional approach. The population of this study was allbreasfeeding working mothers in the working area of Health Center Penengahan Raya Kedaton Villagewith a total sample of 40 respondents. The instrumen consist of 10 knowledge questions and 10behavioral questions with Guttman Scale, which validated by 10 respondents. The result of the bivariateanalysis using the kendall test know that p value = 0,016 then p value p < 0,05 with coefissiencorrelation is 0.76. Based on the result of the research and analysis above, it can be concluded that thereis a high correlation relationship between the level of knowledge about lactation management andmaternal behavior in giving breast milk in the working areas of the Health Center, Penengahan RayaKedaton Village Bandar Lampung