The first thousand days of life is a golden period that determines the quality of life in the future. Practice of Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) that are not appropriate during this period can cause stunting. One of the government's efforts to improve IYCF practice is IYCF Counseling. IYCF counseling can improve knowledge, attitude, and encourage the occurance of IYCF behavior. This study aims to analyze the short results of IYCF counseling on the knowledge and attitude of Mothers who have and have not been given IYCF counseling in Cireunghas District, Sukabumi. The instrument was used a modified knowledge and attitude questionnaire about IYCF. Rasch modeling was used for analysis of questionnaire data, the design of this study was a survey method with a cross sectional approach in April 2018 with maternal subjects having children aged 6-23 months totaling 90 people. The items on the instrument are found to have varying discrimination, which indicates that the instrument has the ability to measure. The results show that the counseling material that needs to be emphasized during IYCF counseling is about giving breastfeeding using bottles, giving up to 2 years of breastfeeding, the texture of food at the beginning of complementary feeding, and responsive feeding. There needs to be increase in the quality and frequency of IYCF counseling to achieve the expected changes of knowledge and attitude.

Bencana non alam yang terjadi akibat dari adanya Coronavirus atau Covid-19 telah meluas serta berpengaruh terhadap masalah kesehatan Ibu dan Anak. Infeksi virus Covid-19 pada ibu hamil yang merupakan kelompok rentan dapat memperburuk kondisi kesehatan kehamilannya. Dengan demikian diperlukan pemahaman tentang Covid-19 dan pencegahannya yang akan meningkatkan kesadaran ibu hamil untuk melakukan tindakan pencegahan Covid-19. Tujuan penelitian ini yaitu untuk menganalisis hubungan antara pengetahuan dengan perilaku pencegahan Covid-19 pada Ibu Hamil di Praktik Mandiri Bidan “T” Kabupaten Bandung. Desain penelitian adalah observasional analitik dengan pendekatan cross-sectional. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada tahun 2020. Responden sebanyak 55 ibu hamil dipilih dengan menggunakan teknik purposive sampling. Instrumen penelitian menggunakan kuesioner untuk mengukur pengetahuan dan perilaku pencegahan Covid-19. Analisis data pada penelitian ini menggunakan analisis univariat dan analisis bivariat menggunakan uji Chi-Square. Hasil menunjukkan adanya hubungan yang signifikan antara pengetahuan dengan perilaku pencegahan Covid-19 pada ibu hamil dengan p-value (0,032) < 0,05. Diperlukan upaya untuk meningkatkan kesadaran ibu hamil terkait pencegahan Covid-19 baik saat pelayanan KIA maupun dengan mengembangkan edukasi melalui berbagai media informasi.

Introduction: The Infant and young child feeding (IYCF) counselling program is an international strategy to improve IYCF practices in the community. This study aimed to explore the implementation of the program through the logic model approach.Methods: A qualitative method was employed for this evaluation study. Fifteen participants were selected by purposive random sampling, and data collection was conducted by in-depth interview, focus group discussion, observation, and document study. Data were processed from transcription, reduction, coding, categorizing to data interpretation and assessed by content analysis.Results: IYCF training is a cascading training and a combination of adult and fun learning that effectively produces a mixture of counsellors who can provide counselling using the counselling cards. However, the gap in the number of cadre counsellors and the target of counselling, as well as the limited time, low financial support, over workload, and inadequate supervision, resulted in poor recording and low numbers of clients who had been exposed to counselling. Nevertheless, this counselling has a positive effect on maternal knowledge and attitude. Still, the existence of traditional community practices, family and environmental factors are barriers to the implementation of proper IYCF practices.Conclusion: IYCF counselling effectively improved IYCF practices, so it has to be continued with strengthening the number of counsellors, recording and supervision activities. Changing strategy in counselling by involving other adult household members like grandmother or neighbours are explicitly targeted for more effective in improving the practices of infant and young child feeding.

Introduction: Early marriage may compromise the reproductive health of adolescent girls. Youth empowerment through the Youth Information and Counseling Center (PIK-R) needs to be done, in order to increase awareness of adolescent girls about their reproductive right. This study aimed to analyze the effect of empowering the Youth Information and Counseling Center (PIK-R) group using the Emo Demo method on early marriage independence among adolescent girls.Method: Design of this study used a quasi-experimental design with one group pretest-posttest design. Thirty adolescent girls from The Youth Information and Counseling Center (PIK-R) group were selected by simple random sampling. The research variables were the Emo Demo method and early marriage independence. Research instruments used Emo Demo module and questionnaire of early marriage independence from the previos study by Purwanti et al. The data were analyzed descriptively to determine the frequency distribution of  early marriage independence before and after the intervention. Furthermore, data analysis used Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test to assess the effect of youth empowerment through the Youth Information and Counseling Center  (PIK-R)  among adolescent girls.  Results: The result of this analysis showed that the empowerment of Youth Information and Counseling Center  (PIK-R) group using the Emo-Demo method have a significant impact on the early marriage independence among adolescent girls with p=0.001. Conclusions: Empowerment of the Youth Information and Counseling Center (PIK-R) group using the Emo-Demo method increases awareness of the potential that adolescents have and the desire to develop it so that they can achieve independence. Keywords: empowerment, adolescent, marriage, PIK-R(Youth Information And Counseling center)