Perceptions of pregnant woman on monetary and time sacrifice for satisfaction based on health workers roles in antenatal services to reduce the risk of maternal death at Gowa district

Background: The Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) is one indicator of health development in Indonesia. Efforts to accelerate the reduction of MMR can be done by ensuring that every mother can access quality maternal health services. Antenatal care is utilized properly, maternal health can be monitored continuously from pregnancy to delivery. Methods: The study design was observational with a cross sectional study design. The population in this study were all pregnant women who had a gestational age of 7-9 months in Gowa Regency as many as 122 people. A sample of 93 people was taken using accidental sampling technique. Results: Pregnant women who have a perception of small monetary sacrifice and say the role of the health workers is lacking in antenatal care 90.0%. Pregnant women who have a perception of monetary sacrifice are very small and say the role of health workers is less as much as 83.1%. Pregnant women who have the perception of the sacrifice of big time and say the role of health workers lacking in antenatal care as much as 100%. Pregnant women who have a perception great monetary sacrifice and say the role of health workers is lacking in antenatal care 90.2%. Conclusion: Satisfaction of pregnant women towards the role health workers in antenatal care based on perception monetary sacrifice does not show correlation while based on time sacrifice shows there is a correlation. Need to increase the speed of the process of pregnancy examination services for pregnant women by health workers. (Health Science Journal of Indonesia 2019;10(2):111-8)