RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE OF PREGNANCY WITH COMPLIANCE OF ANTENATAL CARE IMPLEMENTATION ON PRIMIGRAVID MOTHER IN PUSKESMAS MAPILLI DISTRICT POLEWALI MANDAR

Abstract

Background: Antenatal Care (ANC) is the most important component of maternal health services to reduce maternal and infant mortality. The high maternal and infant mortality rate is due to the low level of mother knowledge and the frequency of irregular ANC examination. One of the things to overcome is with ANC activities. If a pregnant woman has more knowledge about the high risk of pregnancy then most likely the mother will think to determine the attitude, behaved to prevent, avoid or overcome the risk of pregnancy risk so that the mother has awareness to conduct an antenatal visit or check her pregnancy. This study aims to identify the relationship of knowledge and compliance of pregnant women in doing ANC. The design used is the correlation, where the population is All Primigravida mothers in Mapilli Puskesmas Area Polewali Mandar Regency in March-May (2014) which is a number of 187 respondents. Sample size was 65 respondents with technique of taking using Purposive sampling. Data collection using the research instrument is a questionnaire or questionnaire in the form of closed ended knowledge and compliance to implement ANC. The statistical test used is chi square with ? 0,05. From the analysis it was found that most (41.5%) or 27 primigravida mothers had good knowledge, nearly half (36.9%) or 24 primigravida mothers were well-informed. And for a small part entirely (16.9%) or 11 respondents are not obedient and almost half (83.1%) or 54 respondents abide. While the statistical test results obtained p: 0.002 which means there is a relationship between knowledge with compliance to implement ANC. Seeing the results of this study should always pushed the Puskesmas pregnant women to continue to implement the ANC and researchers can then make a direct observation to see compliance.