Effectiveness of Prenatal Class on Pregnant Mothers’ Knowledge and Attitude in Pregnancy Care at Parigi Public Health Center Work Area

The pregnant women class is a health education program that aims to improve the knowledge and skills of mothers regarding pregnancy, pregnancy care, childbirth, postpartum care, newborn care, myths, infectious diseases and birth certificates. This program is expected to be able to reduce the risk of pregnancy complications and improve the welfare of the mother and fetus. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of pregnant women's classes on pregnant women's knowledge and attitudes about pregnancy care in the Parigi Health Center Working Area. The research is a type of quantitative research with a quasi-experimental method with a pretest-posttest design with two groups. The population is all pregnant women in the Parigi Health Center Working Area with a sample of 38 people in the experimental group and 38 people in the control group. The sampling technique uses the purposive sampling technique and is analyzed using the independent sample t-test, namely the z-test. The results showed that the average knowledge in the experimental group was 34.49 and the control group was 10.73 with p value = 0.000 and the average attitude in the experimental group was 31.77 and in the control group was 17.01 with p value = 0.000. The conclusion in this study is that there is a difference in the average knowledge and attitude in the experimental and control groups. This means that face-to-face classroom learning has an effect on increasing the knowledge and attitude of pregnant women about pregnancy care in the Parigi Health Center Working Area.