ASSOCIATION OF HUSBAND AND HEALTH PROFESSIONAL’S SUPPORT ON IRON TABLET CONSUMPTION COMPLIANCE AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN

Abstract

The anemia prevalence among pregnant women in Indonesia is still high and need serious attention. The role of health professional are required to support pregnant women regularly consuming iron tablet in order to avoid suffering from anemia. Besides, husband and family’s support is expected to be able to increase compliance on iron tablet consumption among pregnant women. This cross-sectional study was conducted at the working area PondokKacangTimur Health Center, South Tangerang City from 25 July to 20 August 2016. The sample of the study was 120 formerly pregnant women who currently have infant age of 0 to 6 years old. Results of the study revealed that only 32.5% of respondents comply to regularly consume iron tablet. In multivariate analysis, it was shown that educational level, working status and role of health professional have significant effect to iron tablet consumption compliance. Therefore, it is necessary to improve role of health professional in terms of giving support for pregnant women. Besides, husband and family still need to be encouraged to engage in supporting pregnant women to comply consuming iron tablet regularly.