Nutrient Spesific Intervention in Pregnancy: The Role of Family Welfare Empowerment Program

<p><strong><em><span>Introduction: </span></em></strong><em><span>malnutrition is a greatest global health issue on child health focus. Dietary pattern intake in pregnancy is one of the determinant factors on this fundamental problem. Mother’s knowledge, attitude, and behavior, also dairy intake and diversity are the key factors impacted. </span><strong><span>Purpose</span></strong><span>: this study purposed to know the effectiveness of family welfare empowerment program on their attitude, behavior, knowledge, dietary intake and diversity. </span><strong><span>Methods: </span></strong><span>this ia a Quazi-experimental included 109 pregnant population mother </span><span>in Payangan district between July-December 2023. We have implemented family welfare empowerment program to give education and training program in pregnancy for three months to increase their level of knowledge, attitude, and behavior on nutrition choice. <strong>Result:</strong> The mean age of intervention group was 23.59 years old and 24.78 of the control group.</span><span> </span><span>There was difference increase in </span><span>knowledge scores 87% </span><span>(p0.026)</span><span>, attitude 79% </span><span>(p0.02)</span><span>, and behavior 73.8% </span><span>(p0.00) domain </span><span>before and after the program significantly. The program is effective to increase the risk of high knowledge and high attitude of pregnancy mother 5.219 times and 4.400 times compare with mothers who didn’t get the program significantly. </span><strong><span>Conclusion: </span></strong><span>this program</span><strong><span> </span></strong><span>could be an important role </span><span>ass</span><span>ociated with an increase of knowledge, behavior and attitude in pregnancy women. This program could be well managed comprehensively at community to accelerate prevention on malnutrition program</span></em></p>