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

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