Factors associated with health workers perfomance services intergrated management of childhood illness in singgani public health centre Palu City

Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) is an approach to sick children in an integrated conducted in Puskesmas Singgani but in the achievement of its scope over the last three years has decreased. The coverage of the IMCI is an overview of the performance of health workers in IMCI services. In addition, the number of cases of diarrhea and pneumonia in young children were targeted of IMCI was high. This objective of this research was to identify the factors associated with health worker performance of integrated management services of childhood illness in Puskesmas Singgani Palu. This method of this research was a cross-sectional research. The total number of population was 32 health workers who all of them as respondents (total sampling). The data were analyzed by descriptive univariate and bivariate analysis, at the level of 95% (p <0.05). The results of Chi square test showed that the variable of knowledge was not related to the health worker performance (ρ = 0,220), while the variable related to health worker performance was the attitude (ρ = 0,013), motivation (ρ = 0,011), leadership (ρ = 0,031), and facility (ρ = 0,026). It was needed to fulfill the facilities for IMCI service at Puskesmas Singgani in order to maximize the health workers performance.