Year: 2024 | Month: May | Volume: 11 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 475-481
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20240555
The Effect of Nutrition Counseling on Dietary Behavior During Pregnancy
Dewi Susilawati1, Nur Fadjri Nilakesuma2, Rahmatun Fauziah3
1,2Undergraduate Midwife Education Study Programme, Faculty of Health and Science, University MERCUBAKTIJAYA, 3Undergraduate Midwife Education Study Programme, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Andalas, Padang, Indonesia,
Corresponding Author: Dewi Susilawati
ABSTRACT
Nutrition counseling is a recommended approach to improve the nutritional status of pregnant women. One of the media is food models from Playdough. The purpose of this research is to find out whether nutritional recommendations using the playdough model affect the eating behavior of pregnant women. This type of research is a quasi-experiment with a pretest-posttest control group. The research sample was 126 pregnant women who came to the Lubuk Begalung health centre in Mey-July. The sampling technique is the entire sample. The research was analyzed using the dependent T-test previously conducted a normality test on the data. The results of statistical tests were also obtained under the effect of nutritional counseling using a model of playdough media on knowledge, attitudes, and dietary behavior during pregnancy before counseling because the p-value <0.05. Counseling using the food model media from playdough ingredients carried out continuously is more effective in increasing knowledge, and changing attitudes and dietary behavior during pregnancy compared to pregnant women who do not receive counseling at all. Because the food model that gives a real impression of the size of the food to be consumed so that pregnant women get the nutrition they need.
Keywords: Attitudes, Dietary behavior during pregnancy, Knowledge, Nutrition Counseling, Pregnancy, Playdough
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