Mother Class Program Enhancing Capability of Mother to Provide Stimulating the Development of Children at Dawan Village Bali

Mother Class program is a class that mothers who have children aged between 0–5 years with the same discussion, brainstorming, and exchange of experience will be the fulfillment of health care, nutrition, and stimulation of growth and development. The aims of this study were to determine the effect of Mother Class program to Increase the ability of mother providing stimulation and development of infants. This study used a quasi-experimental design approach pretest-posttest control group design. The total samples of 48 toddlers were divided into 2 groups and technique of sampling with purposive sampling technique. The intervention group received education about developmental stimulation and stimulation modules, but the control group only follow post-service activities only. Data analysis using the Mann-Whitney test and the Wilcoxon the signed-ranks test. The results showed there was a difference in the ability of the mother to stimulate the development between the control group and the intervention group after the implementation of the Mother Class program (p-value <α = 0, 05). It is recommended that the Mother Class carried out routinely follow a schedule of post service.