Open AccessHubungan Dukungan Keluarga dan Peran Kader Dengan Pemanfaatan Posyandu Lansia di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Karangnanding Kabupaten Bengkulu Tengah
Author(s) -
Vike Pebri Giena,
Pawiliyah Pawiliyah,
Erwin Efrianto
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jurnal kesehatan medika udayana/jurnal kesehatan medika udayana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2685-6573
pISSN - 2460-9293
DOI - 10.47859/jmu.v7i01.7
Subject(s) - medicine , probability sampling , promotion (chess) , elderly people , population , nursing , gerontology , environmental health , political science , politics , law
Background: Population. To realize healthy and quality elderly, health promotion must be carried out as early as possible, one of them through the formation and development of elderly posyandu groups. Purpose: This study aims to study the relationship of family support and the role of health volunteer with the use of posyandu for the elderly in the working area of ??Karangnanding Health Center, Karang Tinggi District, Bengkulu Tengah Regency. Methods: This research uses analytic survey design with cross sectional approach. The population in the study were all elderly people who participated in the Posyandu for the elderly in the working area of ??Karangnanding Health Center as many as 53 people. Sampling in this study using a total sampling technique. Data collection in this study uses primary and secondary data. Data analysis was performed univariately and bivariately. Results: The results obtained: (1) There is a relationship of family support with the use of posyandu for the elderly in the working area of ??Karang Nanding Health Center, with a moderate relationship category; (2) There is a relationship between the role of health volunteer and the use of posyandu for the elderly in the working area of ??Karangnanding Health Center, with the category of moderate relationship; (3) There is a relationship between the role of health volunteer and family support with the use of posyandu for the elderly in the working area of ??Karang Nanding Health Center, with a very close relationship category. Conclusion: The role of health volunteer and family support are factors related to the utilization of posyandu for the elderly. With the support from their families, the elderly tend to be more active in participating in posyandu activities for the elderly.