Abstract

In the Special Distrik of Yogyakarta (DIY) the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) is 25 per 1000 live births, a common cause of infant mortality in DIY is the weight of low birth weight babies (LBW) and sepsis. Most LBW is found in Sleman Regency. One of the treatments for LBW is to take care of the kangaroo method. Problems that often occur in the field, postpartum mothers who have taken kangaroo mother care (KMC) classes do not do KMC again after home. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of mentoring on postpartum mothers with LBW babies (dismature) at home on improving maternal skills in conducting KMC after participating in KMC classes.This study is quasi experiment, non equivalent control design, using postpartum maternal respondents with LBW (dismature), a sample of 38 people based on a minimum of experimental samples. The location of the study was in 2 hospitals in Sleman Regency. Determination of samples in each location was determined based on consecutive sampling. The instrument used to determine skill improvement is the operational standard procedure of KMC. The data obtained was then analyzed using the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test and the Mann Whitney test with a significant level of 0.05. The results showed that there were significant differences in the improvement of maternal postpartum skills with LBW (dismature) in conducting KMC at home between the mentoring and non-mentoring groups (p-value 0,000).