Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to determine the implications of husband's education on expectant mother's delivery planning. Methods: The research was a survey study with a cross-sectional design. The samples were 267 pregnant woman in the third trimester in Salatiga city whose checkups were recorded in the register of pregnant women in all Salatiga primary health centers. Sampling used simple random sampling. The data were collected from August to September 2015 by interviewing patients at home.The analyses were performed using logistic regression and Chi-square tests.Results: From 267 respondents, a total of 85.4% had well planned deliveries.The analysis showed that there was significant correlation in the variable of husband's education OR = 2.62 (95% CI = 1.20-5.58; p = 0.0061) with the potential confounder test result showing husband's knowledge had a value of Crude OR = 2.62 and M-H of OR = 2.32 with a value change of 12.21%. This finding shows that the husband's knowledge variable has an influence on the correlation of husband's education toward the planning of delivery of pregnant women in Salatiga. Conclusion: Findings showed that the higher husband's education level, the better the maternity planning of pregnant women. The multiparous parity had a better maternity planning then primiparous parity and pregnant women with a high risk factor status will make better maternity plans than those with low-risk status. It is expected for pregnant women and their husbands to be more active in seeking information about P4K.

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