ANALISIS FAKTOR YANG BERHUBUNGAN DENGAN KEMATIAN BAYI DI KABUPATEN JEMBER

Abstract

Infant mortality is an important indicator to assess the level of welfare of a country and community health status. In 2009 infant mortality in Jember Regency was 58 per 1,000 live births. Infant mortality is caused by endogenous and exogenous factors. Endogenous infant mortality is caused by the infant factors brought since birth, inherited from its parents at the time of conception or obtained from the mother during pregnancy. Meanwhile, exogenous infant mortality is caused by factors related to external environment whose effects may be indirect because of having to go through a particular biological mechanism that causes a risk of death. This research was an analytical research by cross sectional approach intended to analyze factors related to infant mortality in Jember Regency. The research was conducted in five districts in Jember Regency, namely Districts of Sumbersari, Kalisat, Panti, Mayang and Kencong in January 2011. The research samples were 54 mothers who had babies that died in January to September 2010. Data analysis was carried out by path analysis. The results of research by path analysis indicated that there were correlations between knowledge of mothers and antenatal care (p value = 0.001), antenatal care and birth weight (p value = 0.001), knowledge of mothers and infant morbidity (p value = 0.005), birth weight and infant morbidity (p value = 0.027), and morbidity and infant mortality (p value = 0.001). Meanwhile, the antenatal care did not significantly correlate with infant morbidity (p value = 0.648).