Journal of Health (JoH)
Vol 4 No 1 (2017): Journal of Health - January 2017

Tingkat Pengetahuan Ibu Hamil Trimester II Tentang Kebutuhan Nutrisi

Ika Fitria Ayuningtyas (Program Studi Kebidanan STIKes Jenderal Achmad Yani Yogyakarta)
Hafifah Wijayanti (Program Studi Kebidanan STIKes Jenderal Achmad Yani Yogyakarta)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Jan 2017

Abstract

Background : Pregnant mothers’ nutritional status is partly influenced by knowledge level. Early study signaled that there were 47,25 % of pregnant mothers who suffered Chronic Energy Deficiency and the result of interviews found out that 7 out of 10 pregnant mothers had insufficient understanding about nutritional need. This fact encouraged the researcher to hold a study about the knowledge level of second term pregnant mothers about nutritional need in Sanden Community Health Center, Bantul, Yogyakarta Objective : To uncover the knowledge level of second term pregnant mothers about nutritional intake need in Sanden Community Health Center, Bantul, Yogyakarta Method : This was a quantitative descriptive study. Population in this study was Second Term pregnant mothers who underwent pregnancy examination in Sanden Community Health Center, Bantul, Yogyakarta, during June – July 2014. 30 respondents were sorted with Incidental Sampling technique. Data collecting used primary data and the instrument used was closed questionnaire. Result : This study finally categorized the knowledge level of pregnant mothers in Good category (33,3 %), Sufficient category (60,0 %), and Poor category (6,7 %). Conclusion : The knowledge level of second term pregnant mothers about nutritional need were categorized as enough so that it is recommended that pregnant mothers improve their understanding about nutritional need during pregnancy. Suggestion : Midwives in Community Health Centre are supposed to hold dissemination about nutritional need during pregnancy so that it may prevent any Chronic Energy Deficiency.

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Journal Info

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joh

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Health Professions Immunology & microbiology Medicine & Pharmacology Nursing Public Health

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Journal of Health (JoH) (p-ISSN 2355-8857 | e-ISSN 2407-6376) publishes research articles, conceptual articles, reports field studies (See Focus and Scope). The articles of this journal are published every six months, that is on January and July (2 issues per year), and published by the Lembaga ...