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Research Paper | Nursing | Indonesia | Volume 6 Issue 8, August 2017

The Role of Alert Husband during Wife's Pregnancy in the Sukorejo Community Health Centre in Blitar City Indonesia

Sunarti ^[2] | Sri Winarni ^[2]

Abstract: Alert husband is always ready whenever his wife needs him, always accompany his wife everywhere, especially when pregnancy inspection to the doctor or midwife, and protect his wife and baby's health. The purpose of this research is to explain the role of alert husband during pregnancy in Sukorejo District, Blitar City. The research design used was descriptive. The population of this research was the husband of an expectant mother in Sukorejo District, Blitar City and the total samples taken were 40 husbands with purposive sampling technique. Data was collected by questionnaire. Data collection was done on March, 20 th - April 06 th, 2017. The result of this research Showed that the role of husband alerts during pregnancy had good category with percentages of 57.5% as many as 23 of the wife's husband. The recommendation for Sukorejo community health center can be used to develop the service such as provide information, giving fathers a class about the role of alerts husband during pregnancy, and recommendation for expectant mother's husband to remind his roles such as make-wife comfortable when she's sleeping, remembering and choosing food and drink which is right to wife's pregnancy, and accompany when his wife is going for pregnancy inspection.

Keywords: Role, Alert, Husband, Pregnancy

Edition: Volume 6 Issue 8, August 2017,

Pages: 1660 - 1663

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