The Correlation Between Education and Occupation with the ANC (Antenatal Care) Visit at Nagaswidak Health Care Center Palembang Asmalia Resy1,*, Makmun Asmarani1 1Department of Public Health, Medical Faculty of Muhammadiyah, Palembang University, South Sumatera, Indonesia *Corresponding Author Resy Asmalia, Department of Public Health, Medical Faculty of Muhammadiyah, Palembang University, South Sumatera, Indonesia, e-mail: resyasmalia@fkumpalembang.ac.id
Online published on 13 November, 2019. Abstract ANC (Antenatal Care) is a health service provided for pregnant mothers in order to get healthy pregnancy and baby. Since 2016, in Puskesmas Nagaswidak District, the number of pregnant women was 763. The percentage of K1 is 100% (763 woman), and K4 is 96, 2% (734 woman). The aim of this study was to find out whether there is a correlation between mothers’ education and occupation with antenatal care visit at Nagaswidak Health Care Center Palembang. This study applied analytical survey method using Cross Sectional Design. The number of respondents in this study was 76 mothers selected by using accidental sampling method. Data were then analyzed using Chi-square Test. The result of this study showed that from the total of 88 respondents, 51 women (58%) had low education, whereas 66 women (75%) were unemployed, and 63 women (71.6%) regularly had the Antenatal Care Visit. The result of bivariate analysis showed that there was a significant correlation between education (ρ value = 0.019) and occupation (ρ value = 0, 010) with the antenatal care visit. Based on the result of this study, the number of regular ANC visits attended by pregnant women was 71.6%, and there was a significant correlation between education and occupation with antenatal care visit. Top Keywords ANC visit, education, occupation. Top |