Impact of the User-Friendliness of BalitaGrow+© on Compliance with Children's Daily Nutrition Column Completing

Authors

  • Ranny Tandria Pradewi
  • Ancah Caesarina Novi Marchianti Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jember, Jember, Indonesia
  • Muhammad Ali Shodikin Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jember, Jember, Indonesia
  • Dwita Aryadina Rachmawati Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jember, Jember, Indonesia
  • Irawan Fajar Kusuma Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jember, Jember, Indonesia
  • Yohanes Sudarmanto Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jember, Jember, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19184/ams.v10i3.4740

Keywords:

health application, ease of use, compliance of filling, children’s nutrition

Abstract

Nutritional imbalances can lead to malnutrition which can affect children's physical and cognitive growth and development. Advances in science and technology has created opportunities for innovation in the form of health applications to help monitor children's growth and development, nutritional status, and children's daily nutritional intake. The factor that influences the intention to use technology is the ease of use. This indicates that the easier the application is to use, the higher a person's interest and compliance will be in using the application regularly. This research aims to determine ease of use effect of the BalitaGrow+© application on compliance filling the daily nutrition column for children in Rambigundam Village, Jember. This research was an analytical observational research with a cross sectional approach using 35 sample size who meet the criteria. Data analyzed with univariate and bivariate test used the Spearman Rank correlation test. The results obtained from 35 respondents showed that 34 people (97.1%) found it easy to use the BalitaGrow+© application and 31 people (88.6%) had good compliance in filling the child's daily nutrition column in the application. The result of statistical analysis showed a significance value of p value >0.05 (0.726). It can be concluded that there was no significant correlation between the ease of use BalitaGrow+© application and compliance filling the daily nutrition column for children in Rambigundam Village, Jember. Researcher suggests for further research to increase the sample size and investigate other influenced factor.

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Published

2024-10-31

How to Cite

Pradewi, R. T. ., Novi Marchianti, A. C. ., Shodikin, M. A. ., Rachmawati, D. A. ., Kusuma, I. F. ., & Yohanes Sudarmanto. (2024). Impact of the User-Friendliness of BalitaGrow+© on Compliance with Children’s Daily Nutrition Column Completing. Journal of Agromedicine and Medical Sciences, 10(3), 132–137. https://doi.org/10.19184/ams.v10i3.4740

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