By: lzamha Hadijah Rusdan
ABSTRACT
Mothers play a vital role in choosing their child’s diets. Therefore, a mother’s knowledge about the benefits of probiotics for children will affect the consumption of probiotics for their children. Meanwhile, the potential benefits and ways of using probiotics in children have been widely studied globally. This study will explore mother’s basic knowledge of the benefits of probiotics for their children. Data was gathered using a questionnaire that was participated in by 100 mothers who have children under 17 years old and live in Java, Indonesia. This study showed majority (90%) respondents had already known the term of probiotics, (83%) understand that probiotics contain live bacteria. However, only 14% of respondents believe that not all LAB (Lactic Acid Bacteria) are probiotic; the rest assume that all LAB are probiotic. On the knowledge of the use of probiotics in children, respondents only believe in the benefits of probiotics to cure diarrhea (64%) and help increase stool frequency (84%), besides that respondents do not have enough information to determine the benefits of probiotics for children and choose doubtful options (53-63%) about their benefits. Therefore, mothers’ knowledge about the benefits of probiotics is limited to the popular ones, while mothers still doubt the other benefits for children.
Keywords: probiotics, mother’s knowledge, probiotic’s benefit, children
*This poster was presented in The 6th International Conference of Indonesian Society for Lactic Acid Bacteria and Gut Microbiota (6th ISLAB) on 13th August 2021
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