Analysis of Variables Influencing the Antenatal Care Visit in Slawi Primary Health Center, Indonesia

Abstract

Background: Complication during pregnancy is one of the variables increasing the maternal death rate. To reduce or prevent maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality, an Antenatal Care Visit (ANC) was implemented. ANC visit is the Pregnancy Monitoring which is not only intended to inspect the health of the mother in general including complications of pregnancy, but also to prepare for a well-born baby and a healthy mother. Therefore, adherence to ANC is important. In this case, the study aimed to determine the maternal determinant variables related to adherence to ANC.Method: This study was drawn into a cross-sectional study with an analytical approach. The number of research respondents was 30 pregnant women who are in the third trimester. The research design indicates the correlation between variables. A univariate data was used for the analysis with variables of mother’s age, parity, and pregnancy diagnosis. While the bivariate analysis was performed with Fisher’s exact test. The study was conducted in Slawi Primary Health Centre, Indonesia.Results: The results showed that pregnant women who regularly did ANC are 86.67%. According to maternal determinants, the results show that there is a correlation between ages and ANC because the p-value is 0.02, also the correlation between parity and ANC with p-value 0.04. However, there is no correlation between pregnancy diagnoses and ANC because the p-value is 0.08.Conclusion: There are correlations between age and parity to ANC, but no correlation between pregnancy diagnosis and ANC.