HUBUNGAN PENGETAHUAN DENGAN PEMANFAATAN KLINIK SANITASI PADA IBU BAYI DAN BALITA PENDERITA DIARE AKUT

Based on data from Banjarmasin Department of Health in 2015, the highest diarrhea incident which is 1.056 cases, occurs at Puskesmas Kuin Raya Banjarmasin. There is an imbalance between diarrhea incident and visitation to sanitation clinic. Many factors are influencing someone’s behavior while knowledge is one of those. This research aimed to discover the correlation between education and sanitation clinic utilization on a mother of acute diarrhea toddlers at Puskesmas Kuin Raya Banjarmasin. This was an analytic observational study with cross sectional design. The samples were 50 mothers chosen by systematic random sampling method. The analysis was conducted by chi-square test. The result portrayed 12% of high education, 22% of fair education and 66% of low education. Meanwhile, there were 64% non-utilization and 36% utilization of sanitation clinic. The correlation p-value was 0,000 (p