Relationship of Knowledge and Attitude with Nutritional Status of Pregnant Women in One of Malang City Health Center

Abstract

Pregnancy is a time to increase fetal growth and development. The growth and development of children certainly cannot be separated from the nutritional status of the mother. Lack of knowledge about nutrition can cause mothers not to know how to fulfill nutrition during pregnancy. The purpose of the research was to identify the relationship between knowledge and attitudes with maternal nutritional status. This type of research is descriptive analytic and uses a cross sectional research design. Accidental sampling was chosen as a sample collection technique using a questionnaire sheet to measure the independent variables, namely knowledge and attitudes, and the dependent variable, namely nutritional status using the results of the Mid-upper arm circumference measurement. The results of data acquisition were analyzed by chi test with < 0.05. In the analysis, the results showed that there was a relationship between knowledge (p = 0.010) and attitude (p = 0.009) with (α = 0.05) on the nutritional status of pregnant women. So it can be concluded that there is a relationship between knowledge and attitudes towards nutritional status in pregnant women.