Meta Analysis: Relationship of Husband’s Knowledge and Support During Pregnancy with Antenatal Care (ANC) Visits by Pregnant Mothers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37506/ijfmt.v16i2.17976Keywords:
Antenatal Care Visits, Knowledge, Husband’s Support, Meta Analysis.Abstract
Antenatal Care (ANC) is a health service by trained health workers for mothers during their pregnancy,
which must be carried out routinely, according to standards and in an integrated manner. ANC services
are indispensable and recommended for pregnant women in order to maintain the health of the mother
and fetus during pregnancy, detect and treat abnormalities early and prepare the mother for safe
delivery. In fact, there are still many pregnant women who do not access ANC services according to
standards, so this situation can contribute to morbidity and mortality rate (MMR).The research was
conducted in November 2020 – March 2021 by searching for secondary data from two electronic
databases, namely Google Scholer and Pubmed (2015 to 2020). Studies were selected through the
PRISMA protocol and critically assessed using JBI’s Critical Appraisal Tool. Test for heterogeneity,
summary effect and publication bias using the JASP application version 0.14.1. Odd ratio with 95%
confidence level (CI) was used to calculate the effect size. From the selected data, the husband’s
knowledge and support factors have quite a lot of differences in research results, so it is necessary to
re-analyze the relationship of husband’s knowledge and support during pregnancy with ANC visits by
pregnant women to produce more accurate conclusions. Based on the inclusion criteria, there were 17
studies that could be included in the meta-analysis, with 3.956 respondents from Indonesia, Ethiopia
and Vietnam. Homogeneous data with the combined OR value of knowledge of pregnant women with
ANC visits is 2,48 (95% CI; 2,01-3,03) and the relationship of husband’s support during pregnancy
with ANC visits is 2,03 (95% CI; 1,65-2,51), and there are publications biased. This meta-analysis
confirms that there is a significant positive relationship between husband’s knowledge and support
during pregnancy and ANC visits.
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