European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Abstract

Introduction: Community empowerment has an important role for the health promotion strategies that allows the process of providing information to individuals, families or groups continuously to build awareness and shows changes in behavior. This study aims to analyze the development of family empowerment based on a health promotion model in early detection of child development.
Method: This type of research was an exploratory research, with a cross sectional design. The sample in this study were some families who have children aged 0-72 months in the Surabaya City Health Center working area. The number of the sample in this study was calculated based on the rule of the thumb sample size formula.The sampling technique was carried out by multistage random sampling. After finding the model, strategic issues will be found. Furthermore, FGDs and expert discussions were conducted to find empirical models.
Results: The results of statistical testing show that all variables show a calculated T value above 1.96 with a positive value, which indicates that these variables have an effect and increase. The results of R-Square of commitment (79.3%),cognition behavior (5.6%), Basic value (56.7%), appraisal (70.5%) and ability (46.2%), it shows that the latent variables can be explained by each of the observational variables. Conclusion: The family empowerment model can to improve the ability to detect early growth and development disorders, the highest research shows strong results on the influence of basic values on assessment and the effect of commitment on one's ability