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Under-two children are a quite vulnerable because they are in a transition period
from breast-fed to having complementary feeding. If children at this age are not adequately nourished by complementary food (CF), it will result in growth disturbance and malnutrition. The authors were interested in studying the improvement of knowledge of homemade CF provision through education for mothers of under-twos in the working area of Puskesmas Meurebo. The purpose of this study was to find out the differences in the mothers’ knowledge
of homemade CF after they received the education. This study was an observational analytic study with a cross sectional design. The sample in this study was 78 mothers of under-twos that was chosen by using accidental sampling. The data were collected by using questionnaires and were analyzed by using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. The results showed that the p-value
was 0.000 (p<0.05), meaning that there were differences in the mothers’ knowledge of homemade CF provision before and after receiving the education. It is concluded that there is a difference in knowledge of mothers before and after receiving an education on provision of homemade CF