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ABSTRACT
Introduction: Pregnant women living in industrial areas are exposed to higher
levels of toxic substances, pollutants, and other chemicals; this is exacerbated
by the pandemic conditions. Improving the nutritional status of pregnant
women can be pursued through nutritional education for pregnant women. This
study aimed to determine the differences in nutrition fulfilment patterns of
pregnant women, before and after nutrition education.
Methods: This study used quasi-experimental research with a one group pre
post-test design. The samples were 51 pregnant women in industrial areas.
Treatment in this study was nutrition education by empowering health cadres.
The instrument of this research is an observation sheet that has been tested for
validity and reliability. Data analysis used a statistical paired t-test.
Results: Knowledge of pregnant women increased by 5.21% after treatment,
and behaviour increased by 5.2%. The t-test showed that the the nutrition
education model for pregnant women in industrial areas could significantly
increase the knowledge (p-value = 0.000) and improve the behaviour (p-value
= 0.000) of pregnant women.
Conclusion: Nutrition education for pregnant women provided by health
cadres is proven to increase knowledge of pregnant women about nutrition and
behaviour of fulfilling nutrition during pregnancy in a pandemic situation.
During the pandemic, pregnant women can increase knowledge related to
nutrition fulfilment through the assistance of health cadres without worrying
about being exposed to viruses from care providers.