THE INFLUENCE OF ANTENATAL CLASS TOWARDS IIIRD TRIMESTER PRIMIGRAVIDA MOTHERS’ LEVEL OF ANXIETY IN FACING CHILD BIRTH

Abstract

Background: Anxiety is most experienced by primigravida mothers in IIIrd trimester. This anxiety
could possibly be the cause of obstetrics complication which happens when the stress
hormone(adrenalin dan noradrenalin) were release due to anxiety. The complication can be in such
form as pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, hypertension risk during pregnancy, premature birth, and
miscarriage. It can also be the reason of time taking-child birth in phase II. This complication needs
such an antenatal treatment as antenatal class can facilitate the needs of service during pregnancy.
This research’s purpose is to figure out IIIrd trimester primigravida mothers’ level of anxiety
differences in facing child birth before and after taking the antenatal class.
Method: This research is a quantitative research with pre-experiment design and only group pretest –
posttest plan. It takes 15 people as a sample and uses quetionaire and observation sheet to collect data.
The sample was taken by using simpel random sampling. Data collection was taken in Local
Goverment Clinic on Merdeka Street–Palembang during November 20th to December 3rd 2013.
Result: The result shows the following characteristic of respondents: the greatest number of ages in
range <20 and >30 years are 9 respondents (60%), unemployed mothers are 11 respondents (73,3%),
mothers with adequate income are 8 respondents (53,3%), and moderate-educated mothers are 10
respondents (66,7%). Statistic proves that there is a significant influence between IIIrd trimester
primigravida mothers who participate in antenatal class and who do not in terms of anxiety level
when facing child birth in Merdeka Local Government Clinic in Palembang (p value=0,000;?0,05).
Conclussion: Based on the research, the Antenatal class is expected to be implemented as an
anteanatal services during pregnancy. Furthermore, the research is also expected to be able to conduct
analysis towards other factors that can influence mothers’ anxiety level during pregnancy.