DEVELOPMENT OF PARTICIPATIVE LEARNING MODELS TO IMPROVE ACHIEVEMENT OF EDUCATORS’ FOR VILLAGE MIDWIVES IN BANGKALAN

Abstract

Midwife is one of health professionals who has an important and strategic position in system
of health service. In conducting her profession, midwife has a role and function clearly regulated on
standard of midwifery care including a role as caregiver, manager, educator, and, researcher. In
relation to her role as an educator, midwife has a responsibility in guiding healthy behavior and
promotion of health program in mothers, children, family planning and reproduction health.
Improvement of midwives’ skills at performing his role as an educator can be conducted
through participative learning strategy which involves midwives actively in informal learning
process. Participative Learning Model is learning activity conducted from knowledge, values and
skills owned by learners and emphasizing on problem solving approach.
The aim of research was to develop participative learning model to improve achievement of
midwife’s role as an educator. This research employed experiment, pretest-posttest control group
design, consisting of two groups, experiment group and control group. Independent variable was
participative learning model and dependent variable was midwife’s role as an educator. Data
analysis technique used descriptive analysis and it was assumed that this research was conducted
on population. Analysis of effects of participative learning model on achievement of midwife’s role
as an educator was based on median and mode values of pretest and posttest using Wilcoxon test.
The result showed that there was a percentage increase of achievement in educator’s role
which was categorized tolerant in all competence of educator’s role. Wilcoxon test showed that pvalue,
(0,046) < α (0,05) means that development of participative learning model with observation
and reflection had effects on increase of achievement in midwife’s role as an educator for health
service in mothers, children and family planning (KB)/reproduction health.
Guidance efforts of improving technical quality and knowledge development of village
midwives needs to be conducted continuously through informal education held based on proper
need analysis which is suitable with social cultural characteristics of society within their duty area.