1 PEMBERIAN SUSU FORMULA DENGAN KEJADIAN DIARE PADA ANAK USIA 0-24 BULAN DI BANDA ACEH The Giving Formula Milk And Occurrences Of Diarrhea On Children 0-24 Months Old In Banda Aceh Vera Rizki 1 ; Sri Intan R 2 1 Mahasiswa Program Studi Ilmu Keperawatan, Fakultas Keperawatan Universitas Syiah Kuala Banda Aceh 2 Bagian Keilmuan Keperawatan Anak Fakultas Keperawatan Universitas Syiah Kuala Banda Aceh e-mail: verarizki1994@gmail.com; Intan_274@yahoo.co.id ABSTRAK Diare merupakan salah satu penyakit utama pada bayi di Indonesia yang sampai saat ini menempati urutan ke tiga penyebab kematian bayi. Salah satu penyebabnya adalah pemberian susu formula dengan cara yang tidak benar. Hal ini menyebabkan meningkatnya risiko terjadinya diare sebagai akibat dari tata cara atau proses pemberian susu formula yang kurang baik. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan pemberian susu formula dengan kejadian diare pada anak usia 0-24 bulan di wilayah kerja Puskesmas Kecamatan Kuta Alam Banda Aceh. Jenis penelitian ini bersifat deskriptif korelatif dengan desain cross sectional study.Populasi berjumlah 797 ibu yang memiliki anak usia 0-24 bulan. Teknik pengambilan sampel secara proporsional sampling dengan jumlah sampel 89 orang.Alat pengumpulan data yaitu kuesioner. Uji analisa data dilakukan univariat dan bivariat (uji statistik chi-square). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan ada hubungan pemberian susu formula dengan kejadian diare pada anak usia 0-24 bulan (p-value 0,002). Secara khusus ada hubungan membersihkan alat yang digunakan dalam pemberian susu formula dengan kejadian diare (p-value 0,027), ada hubungan frekuensi pemberian susu formula dengan kejadian diare (p-value 0,008), ada hubungan jumlah pemberian susu formula dengan kejadian diare (p-value 0,002), ada hubungan cara menyiapkan susu formula dengan kejadian diare (p-value 0,009). Oleh karena itu diharapkan kepada ibu-ibu yang memberikan susu formula kepada anaknya harus memperhatikan cara yang benar dalam pemberian susu formula meliputi cara membersihkan, frekuensi pemberian, jumlah pemberian dan cara menyiapkan susu formula. Kata Kunci : Susu formula, Anak, Diare ABSTRACT Diarrhea is one of the major diseases in infants in Indonesia until now existing in the third rank of the causes of their mortality. One of the causes of it is the incorrectness of giving of formula milk. In addition, it leads to increase the risk of diarrhea as a result of the incorrect procedure or process of giving it. The research was aimed at determining the relationship between giving formula milk and occurrences of diarrhea on children 0-24 months old in the working area of Puskesmas (Community Health Center) Kuta Alam sub-district Banda Aceh. It was descriptive correlative with a cross sectional study design. The population was as many as 797 mothers having children 0-24 months old. The sampling technique was taken by proportional sampling with the sample of 89 people. The data collection instrument was a questionnaire. The data analysis test was done by univariate and bivariate (chi-square test). The result of it showed there was the relationship between giving formula milk and occurrences of diarrhea in children 0-24 months old (p-value 0.002). In particular, there was the relationship between cleaning tools used in formula milk and occurrences of diarrhea (p-value 0.027), there was the frequency relationship between giving formula milk and occurrences of diarrhea (p-value 0.008), there was the relationship between an amount of giving and occurrences of diarrhea (p-value 0.002), there was the relationship between ways to prepare formula milk and occurrences of diarrhea (p-value 0.009). Therefore, it was expected to mothers given formula milk to their children to have to pay attentions to the correct ways in giving it, including the ways to clean, giving frequency, the amount of giving, and the ways to prepare it. Keywords : Formula Milk, Children, Diarrhea