THE RELATED FACTORS WITH THE REGULARITY OF VISIT OF ANTENATAL CARE (ANC) IN THE POASIA PUBLIC HEALTH CENTER OF KENDARI CITY IN 2018

Abstract

Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) is one indicator in determining the degree of public health which is useful to describe the level of awareness of healthy living behavior, nutritional status and maternal health, environmental conditions, the level of health services especially for pregnant women, and service of childbirth and childbed period. The regularity of visit of antenatal care (ANC) is the discipline / compliance of pregnant women to supervise pregnancy before the child is born primarily to the child. The purpose of this study was to determine the related factors with the regularity of antenatal care visit (ANC) in the Poasia public health center (PHC) of Kendari city in 2018. The type of this study was observational with cross sectional study design approach. This study was conducted at Poasia PHC of Kendari city on May 2018. The population in this study were all pregnant women who had visited in Poasia PHC of Kendari City in 2017 which amounted to 749 people. Samples in this study were 67 respondents by using simple random sampling technique. The results showed that there was a relationship between mother's knowledge and husband support with regularity of visit of antenatal care (ANC). There was no relationship between mother age and income with regularity of visit of antenatal care (ANC) at Poasia PHC of Kendari City. It is hoped to Poasia PHC management to be more active in giving understanding to the public about the importance of having their pregnancy examined.