Nutrition Plate as a Nutritional Media to Increase Knowledge of Balanced Nutrition for Mothers with Toddlers in Muara Gembong

This community empowerment is carried out by the communication science academia from Universitas Bhayangkara Jakarta Raya. This community empowerment is assisted by a food technology lecturer from Universitas Al Azhar Indonesia. This community empowerment seeks to increase the knowledge of mothers with a toddler about balanced food and nutrition. This community empowerment is carried out in the Desa Pantai Bakti, Muara Gembong, one of the districts with the highest level of under-five malnutrition in Indonesia. There are two methods (mix-method approach) this community empowerment use in this activity: focus group discussion and experimental method. These two approaches aim to measure intervention (counseling, pamphlet installation, and nutritional plate medium). This community empowerment uses pre-test and post-test for the same group to measure changes in subject knowledge before and after counseling (intervention). This community empowerment affects changes in subject knowledge (n=15). The mother's knowledge about balanced nutrition was statistically significantly increased by two-tail P(T£ t) 0.002788939 with Sig. £ a 0,05.