Wabah COVID-19 merupakan bencana nonalam yang terjadi secara global sejak awal tahun 2020. Laju penularan yang cepat dan kemungkinan komplikasi yang fatal menyebabkan tingginya angka kematian akibat COVID-19. Sejak penemuan kasus pertama COVID-19, berbagai upaya penanganan dan penanggulangan COVID-19 terus dilakukan. Keberhasilan pengembangan vaksin COVID-19 memberikan harapan baru dalam eradikasi COVID-19, namun disisi lain dapat mengganggu stabilitas dalam masyarakat dikarenakan kebijakan yang terus berganti demi tercapainya target cakupan vaksin dalam waktu singkat, kurangnya pengetahuan masyarakat terhadap kebijakan yang berlaku, serta rentannya terjadi misinformasi di kalangan masyarakat. Oleh karena itu, diperlukan sumber daya manusia tambahan untuk dapat memaksimalkan pelayanan kesehatan dalam penanganan dan penanggulangan COVID-19. Mahasiswa kedokteran memiliki kedudukan yang strategis untuk dilibatkan dalam upaya mitigasi wabah COVID-19. Hal ini dikarenakan mahasiswa kedokteran telah mendalami ilmu-ilmu kedokteran dasar dan berstatus sebagai bagian dari komunitas itu sendiri. Institusi pendidikan kedokteran, salah satunya Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Sebelas Maret mewadahi mahasiswanya untuk berperan dalam komunitas sesuai dengan kompetensi yang dimiliki melalui penyelenggaraan KKN Tematik yang bertepatan dengan pelaksanaan program Serbuan Vaksinasi COVID-19 Universitas Sebelas Maret.
Background and Objective: Malnutrition in Indonesian children still become a national health concern considering that parents and child-caregivers have low comprehension of balanced nutritional intake which actually take major part in children’s early years developments. This study was aiming to perceive the effective educational method for parents and caregivers in increasing their knowledge of sufficient nutritional intake to lower the prevalence of malnutrition in children. Method: This was a descriptive-qualitative research with case study method based on Guideline of Proportional Nutrition (Pedoman Gizi Seimbang, PGS) issued by the Ministry of Health in 2014 and was held in Posyandu Balita Kerten, Surakarta, Central Java. The study was done by examining a communicative and continuous education and training by local health providers to mothers with underweight children (age two to five) with monitoring tools such as KIA (Kesehatan Ibu dan Anak) Guideline and KMS (Kartu Menuju Sehat). Result: Education provided by local health providers was not effective to rise mothers’ nutritional status awareness. Local health providers need to be trained by professionals before educating mothers. Conclusion: Provision of proportional daily intake education using creative and communicative ways to mothers increase children’s nutritional status which can prevent them from complication caused by nutritional deficiency. To accomplish that, local health providers should be prepared professionally to educate mothers.
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