TINGKAT PENGETAHUAN IBU PRIMIGRAVIDA TENTANG TANDA BAHAYA KEHAMILAN SEBELUM DAN SESUDAH PENYULUHAN DI WILAYAH KERJA PUSKESMAS REJOSARI

Abstract

ABSTRACT
Complication of pregnancy is caused of the high maternal mortality. One
of effort to decrease the maternal mortality is to know about thr danger signs of
pregnancy. First time of pregnancy is a new experience for primigravidae, so
that, primigravidae had not yet knowledge about the pregnancy include the
danger signs of pregnancy. This study purpose to assess the evectivity of
counseling toward the increaseof primigravidae knowledge about danger signs of
pregnancy in Puskesmas Rejosari Pekanbaru. Methods in this study using preexperimental
technique with pre-post test one group study. This study have sample
50 people with the technique total sampling. The variables of this study were
analyzed with Mc.Nemar test with α=0,05. The results show that respondents
have good knowledge consist of 5 respondents (10%) before counseling and after
counseling there is an increasing number of respondents good knowledge consist
of 8 respondents (16%). Anilysis test shows there is no effectiveness of counseling
to improving the knowledge (p=0,532) >α=0,05 about the danger signs of
pregnancy for primigravidae. The conclusion of this study counseling is not
effective in increasing knowledge primigravidae statistically.
Keywords : Knowledge, before and after counseling, pregnancy danger signs