Efforts Of Providing Balanced Nutrition Counseling for Pregnant Women and Giving Sukahitu Cookies in Increasing Knowledge, Attitude and Blood Haemoglobin Levels of Pregnant Women in Percut Sei Tuan District, Deli Serdang Regency

Abstract

Anemia in pregnant women occurs due to iron deficiency (Fe). About 95% of anemia cases during pregnancy are due to iron deficiency. This study aims to determine the effect of Balanced Nutrition Counseling for Pregnant Women and Giving Sukahitu Cookies for Increasing Mother's Knowledge, Attitudes and Hemoglobin Levels in Percut Sei Tuan District, Deli Serdang Regency. This research was a quasi-experimental pre and post-test of two groups by respectively 30 pregnant women receiving the intervention and a control group.The pregnant women group was given a balanced nutrition counseling intervention for pregnant women with media booklets for three weeks and 100 g/pack/day of Sukahitu Cookies. Meanwhile, the control group received as much as 100 g/day cookies during the study. To analyze the effect of providing counseling with balanced nutrition booklet media for pregnant women and giving sukahitu cookies to increasing knowledge, attitudes and hemoglobin levels in anemia of pregnant women, an independent t-test p<0.05 was used. Statistical results show there is a difference in the increase in knowledge scores of pregnant women between the intervention group and the control group p=0.000. This show Balanced Nutrition Counseling for Pregnant Women and Providing Sukahitu Cookies can increase knowledge, attitudes, and hemoglobin levels of pregnant women in Percut Sei Tuan District, Deli Serdang Regency.