Correlation Between Village Midwife\u27s Characteristics and Behavior in Neonatal Care at Primary Health Care Center Area in Klaten District

Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) in District of Klaten in 2011 and in 2012 respectively was13.346/1,000 live births and 10.36/1,000 live births. The aged of infant mortalities ranged from 0to 28 days or during a neonatal period. The coverage of neonatal services provided by villagemidwives in District of Klaten from year of 2009 to year of 2012 decreased in terms of pure andcomplete visits. Almost all village midwives did not provide the neonatal services which were inaccordance with minimum services standards. This research aimed to find out about therelationship between characteristics of village midwives and neonatal services at health centersin District of Klaten in 2013. This was observational-survey research using cross-sectionalapproach. Number of samples was 82 village midwives in District of Klaten selected by a technique of Cluster Random Sampling. Research instruments used a questionnaire and anobservation sheet. Primary and secondary data were analyzed using methods of univariateanalysis (frequency distribution and percentage) and bivariate analysis (chi-square test). Theresult of this research revealed that variables of age (p=0.002), education (p=0.000), training(p=0.011), and work period (p=0.000) significantly related to a variable of knowledge.Furthermore, variables of age (p=0.005), education (p=0.000), training (p=0.003), work period(p=0.000), and knowledge (p=0.000) significantly related to a variable of attitude. On the otherhand, variables of age (p=0.354), education (p=0.751), training (p=0.336), work period(p=0.950), knowledge (p=0.739), and attitude (p=0.896) did not relate to the neonatal services.As a suggestion, Klaten District Health Office needs to improve the knowledge of villagemidwives especially about neonatal services by conducting training and socialization of aMaternal and Child Health (MCH) book and Integrated Management of Young Infants for them.In addition, supervision needs to be done to village midwives in MCH services