The Effect of One-to-one Counseling to Pregnant Women’s Knowledge about Anemia in Semarang

Abstract

The incidence of anemia in Semarang was constantly increasing years by years. The promotive and preventive activities through counseling of anemia were essential to increase the knowledge of pregnant women for reducing the incidence of anemia. Given the fact that one-to-one counseling using pamphlet was rarely implemented, so that this research about one-to-one method needs to be done. The aim are to determine the difference between participant’s pre and post-intervention knowledge about anemia and to determine the correlation among age, education, occupation, income, history of anemia (confounding variables) with the participant’s post-intervention knowledge. The study used quasi experimental design without control group. The research subjects were pregnant women from Puskesmas Gayamsari Semarang which were chosen by cluster random sampling method. There were 48 research subjects recruited from antenatal care (ANC) and home visits. The pre-intervention knowledge scores were 10 (5-21), while the post-intervention scores were 24 (9-33) (p<0,05) so that, there was significant difference between pregnant women’s pre and post-intervention knowledge about anemia. Confounding variables were insignificantly correlated with post-intervention knowledge. The conclusion is one-to-one counseling effects the pregnant women’s knowledge about anemia in Semarang.