The Effect of Mother Knowledge on Post-Health Education Towards Rehospitalization of Children with Pneumonia in 3 Jakarta Hospitals

The rehospitalization rate of children under-five with pneumonia is still high in number. The risk of hospitalization is getting higher in mothers with low knowledge of their child’s disease. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of post-education maternal knowledge in the cases of rehospitalization and to determine the differences in rehospitalization based on the type o health education media. This study is cohort. The level of post-health education knowledge was measured on the third day, then followed up until the 30th day post the patient is discharged from the hospital. Post-health education knowledge significantly reduced the cases of rehospitalization in both groups. However, the group rehospitalization audivisual is lower than the leaflet group (p=0.047, OR=5.870). Post-health education knowledge is effective in reducing the risk of rehospitalization, and health education using audiovisual is more effective in reducing the cases of rehospitalization on children under-five with pneumonia compared to the health education by leaflet