Mothers’ Participation and Compliance Toward the Improvement of the Infants’ Nutritional in Community Feeding Center Lagarutu Palu

Nutrition is one of the indicators in building the qualified human resources. Nationally, the prevalence of malnutrition is 19,6%. This shows that the problem of malnutrition in Indonesia is still a public health problem. In Palu Province, malnutrition is also a health problem that continues to be handled.Community Feeding Center is a program of the government in tackling the cases of malnutrition through the supplementary feeding and education in the mothers. This study was aimed to determine the relationship between the mothers’ participation and compliance in giving supplementary feedingwith improved nutritional status of infants in CFC Lagarutu. The type of this research is in the form of analytic survey with cross sectional approach with 31 samples taken by purposive sampling technique. The data were analyzed using Chi-square test with α 5%. The research was conducted in April-June 2015. The results show that no relationship between the participation (p=0,001) and the improvement of the infants’ nutritional status, where the more active of the mothers in the CFC program, the more improvement of the infants’ nutritional status. There is a relationship between the compliance and the improved nutritional status (p=0,000), where the more obedient of the mothers in giving supplementary feeding, the more improvement of the infants’ nutritional status. It is recommended to the mothers to always be active in the CFC program and dutifully provide supplementary food to their children in order to improve the nutritional status of infants.