PENDAMPINGAN MAHASISWA DAN PENINGKATAN PENGETAHUAN IBU HAMIL TENTANG TANDA BAHAYA KEHAMILAN, NIFAS DAN BAYI BARU LAHIR DI TUJUH KABUPATEN/KOTA DI INDONESIA

Abstract

Reducing maternal and neonatal mortality still have many challenges. One of the Ministry of Health’s strategy is to collaborate with universities through the assitance of pregnant women by students. This study aims to determine the effect of students’mentoring on increasing knowledge of pregnant women on dangerous sign of pregnancy, postnatal and newborns. The study is an operational research with quasi-experimental design that was conducted in seven districts/cities in Indonesia. Two Puskesmas were chosen for each district and it categorized as intervention and control group with the number of samples was 280 pregnant women for each group. The results of pre-test showed no difference in the level of knowledge about the dangerous signs of pregnancy, postnatal and newborns between the intervention and control groups, but after mentoring there were significant differences (p-value