THE CORRELATION OF MOTHER’S ROLE WITH TOILET TRAINING ABILITY FOR CHILDREN AS OLD AS 18-36 MONTHS

Abstract

Toilet Training for children is an effort to train children in order to be able to control in urinating and defecating .Parents who are less to play an active role and they are less to understand the readiness of children because they have activities with their work or they are lazy to do toilet training will affect many children as old as 18-36 months to get bed wetting. Defecating (BAB ) and urinating (BAK) at everywhere, even until school age were caused because of toilet training failure. This research aimed to determine the correlation of mother’s role with toilet training ability for children as old as 18 – 36 months at Bareng Village, Bareng Sub District, in Jombang District. The design of research used correlation analytic with cross sectional approach . Population in this research was all mothers who had children as old as 18 – 36 months at Bareng Village, Bareng Sub District, In Jombang District as many as 325 people . the total of samples was 65 respondents .Sampling technique used cluster random sampling. Research variable consisted of Independent variable was mother’s role by using questionnaire. and toilet training ability for children as old as 18 – 36 months by using questionnaire, furthermore it was analyzed by using the statistical test of chi square with α = 0,05. The result of this research showed that the most mother’s role were positive as many as 39 respondents (60 % ) , the most of toilet training capability for children as old as 19 – 36 months were capable as many as 44 respondents { I 67, 7 }. The result of Chi square test was obtained 0’000 , 005. This research concluded that there were the correlation of mother’s role with toilet training ability for children as old as 18 – 36 months at Bareng Village, Bareng Sub District, in Jombang District. it is expected that mothers had better practice toilet training to children and avoid using the practical way such as wearing diapers frequently.