KNOWLEDGE OF PREGNANT WOMEN ABOUT HEPATITIS B BY CARRYING OUT LABORATORY TESTS.

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Title

KNOWLEDGE OF PREGNANT WOMEN ABOUT HEPATITIS B BY CARRYING OUT LABORATORY TESTS.

Subject

KNOWLEDGE OF PREGNANT

Description

Liver disease by the hepatitis B virus is a big problem in the world, an estimated 400 million people are carriers of this virus. attack all ages, genders, and races throughout the world. About 5% of the world's population has hepatitis B without symptoms. The prevalence in Indonesia is around 5-17%. Pregnant women positively infected with hepatitis B have a greater risk of giving birth prematurely, low birth weight (LBW), to experience disability. Women who are detected to have hepatitis B e-antigen (HBeG) are the most infectious. In fact, pregnant women do not all know the importance of hepatitis B screening. Pregnant women are not all routinely screened for hepatiis B, so it has been discovered that pregnant women suffer from hepatitis B at 28 to 37 weeks' gestation.
This type of analytic research is observational approach, cross sectional time approach, sampling technique using purposive sampling, the number of samples is 94 respondents. The study was conducted from 4 to 17 February 2019 at the D3 Midwifery Study Program at the University of Tulungagung, Analysis using Chi Square
The results, from 94 respondents who had good knowledge and conducted 8 laboratory examinations (19%), enough knowledge then conducted laboratory examinations of 50 respondents, while knowledge was lacking and did not conduct laboratory examinations of 16 respondents. Chi Square calculation p-value of 0.026 <0.05, meaning that there is a relationship between the knowledge of pregnant women about hepatitis B with laboratory tests. Facts and theories are in line with the majority of respondents aged 17-25 years so that the process of thinking or Intellegentia Quetient (IQ) is good and willing to do a laboratory examination of hepatitis B because it knows its benefits for pregnancy and also the health of the mother and fetus to be born.

Creator

Siti Maryam, SST.,M.Kes