THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE OF PREGNANT WOMEN AND FAMILY SUPPORT FOR THE PARTICIPATION OF PREGNANT WOMEN IN TEACHING CLASSES FOR PREGNANT WOMEN IN THE WORK AREA OF UPT PUSKESMAS PANCA MAKMUR

Abstract

Knowledge is the sensing of object (Arifah E A & Fridayanti W, 2016). Participation is personal involvement (Dwiningrum, 2018). Support is verbal or non-verbal advice, action have emotional benefit. This study aim to show that teaching classes for pregnant women have a good impact on pregnant women, which increase the knowledge and skill of pregnant women in dealing with pregnancy until the parturition process. Teaching class for pregnant women aim to reduce maternal and infant mortality.
This study aim to determine the relationship between knowledge of pregnant women and family support on the participation of pregnant women in the Teaching Class for Pregnant Women in the working area of ​​the Panca Makmur Health Center UPT. This type of research is a quantitative study with a descriptive correlational approach. Normality test was carried out using descriptive analytic with a sample size of 36 so that the significant value of Kolmogorov-Smirnov was selected. So the correlation test use rank spearment
The results showed that the knowledge of pregnant women was not good enough for 4 respondents (11.1%) and 32 respondents (88.8%). Poor family support 19 respondents (52.7%) and good support 17 respondents (47.2 %). Participation of pregnant women in teaching classes for pregnant women is not good 7 respondents (19.4%) and 29 respondents are good (80.6%). The rank spearment test shows that H1 is rejected, meaning that there is no relationship between knowledge of pregnant women and family support on the participation of pregnant women in teaching classes for pregnant women in the working area of ​​UPT Puskesmas Panca Makmur.
Keywords: Knowledge, Support, Participation of pregnant women