THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMMUNITY BASED EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR FAMILY INDEPENDENCE IN ACUTE RESPIRATORY INFECTION (ARI) AT COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS SIMPANG TIGA ACEH BESAR by: Vitria Erlinda Std. No: 1209200180015 Supervising Commission: Dr. dr. Endang Mutiawati R, Sp.S (K) Teuku Tahlil, S.Kp, M.S, Ph.D ABSTRACT Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) is one of disease which often happened for toddlers and increased every year. In this case, family need some effort of health information to make their independence in prevention of ARI will increasing with various method of education. The purpose of this research was to find out the effecctivity difference of education and lecture method for family independence in toddlers Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI). The method of this research was a cross sectional research design device of pretest and postest with family who had toddlers with ARI experienced at community health centers Simpang Tiga Aceh Besar as the population. The sample was selected by using a purposive sampling with amount of sample counted 101 respondent become 3 group (group of coeval education, lecture group, control group). The data were analyzed with one way anove test and ancova test. The research result showed that no significant differences which group before intervention (p>0,05), there was get different which group after intervention (p