THE EFFECT OF PRENATAL ATTACHMENT HEALTH EDUCATION WITH

AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA ON PARENTAL READINESS IN SLEMAN PRIMARY

HEALTH CARE

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Desi Sariyani
desisariyanii@gmail.com

ABSTRACT
Unpreparedness parenthood effect on anxiety during pregnancy and after childbirth,
abuse and neglect of care. The number of child abuse in Indonesia in 2015 was 4,309 cases
and increased in 2016 by 4,620 cases (Indonesian child protection commission, 2016). The
aspect of being a parent consists of financial, emotional, physical, social, knowledge and
relationship readiness. The attachment between parents and fetuses built since the beginning
of pregnancy will affect the quality of parent relationships with children throughout the
period. Improving the prenatal process attachment can be through the support given to
parents, one of which is through the support of information using electronic media namely
audiovisual. The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of health education
prenatal attachment with audiovisual on the readiness to become parents in Sleman primary
health care. This study used method quasi-experimental with a non-equivalent control group
design. The sample was all husband and wife who came to do a prenatal check up at the
Sleman Health Center. The sampling technique used consecutive sampling with a total
sample of 23 respondents in the intervention group and the control group. Data analysis
using Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test. The results of the statistical test showed the p-value =
0.271> 0.05, meaning that there was no difference in usage audiovisual and conventional
methods towards the readiness to become parents. But this research can be concluded that
the use of audiovisual is better in increasing the readiness to become parents because it has a
value mean different after being given higher health education than conventional methods.

Keywords: Prenatal Attachment, Readiness to be a parent, Audiovisual

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Lecture in Bakti Utama Institute of Health Science