PENGARUH PREGNANCY CLASSTERHADAP PENINGKATAN PENGETAHUAN DAN KETERAMPILAN IBU HAMIL TENTANG KESEHATAN IBU DAN ANAK (KIA)

Abstract

Today's health development in Indonesia is still prioritized onefforts to improve the health status of mothers and children, especially for the groups most vulnerable to the health of pregnant women, childbirth and perinatal infants. Pregnancy Class is a means to learn together about health for pregnant women, in theform of face to face. This study aims to identify the knowledge and skills of pregnant women regarding MCH before, after and one month after participating in the Pregnancy Class in the Muliorejo Community Health Center in 2020.The research design used inthis research is quasy-experimental. Pregnancy Class in this research observation was carried out 3 times, namely pre test / before treatment, post test / after treatment and one month after treatment carried out in 7 pregnancy class groups, each group implementation for 3 weeks with a frequency of once a week within 120 minutes in pregnant women with gestational age of 20-32 weeks. The research subjects taken were 42 people, but participants who met the inclusion criteria were 35 pregnant women.Based on the results of data analysis using paired t-test, it shows that the difference between the scores of knowledge and skills before and after the intervention shows a significant difference p = 0.001 (α <0.05).While the difference in knowledge after the intervention and one month after the intervention showed no significant difference p = 0.378 (α> 0.05), this proved that there was no difference between knowledge after intervention and knowledge one month after intervention. For the difference in skills afterthe intervention with one month after the intervention showed a significant difference p = 0.012 (α <0.05), this proved that there was a difference between after the intervention and one month after the intervention.The conclusions from the findings of this study indicate that the Pregnancy Class has a significant effect on increasing the knowledge and skills of pregnant women about maternal and child health (KIA)