Effectiveness Of Parenting Counseling On Postpartum Blues Events In The Workingarea Of Lubuk Buaya Community Health Center In 2017

Abstract

Postpartum blues occur in the first week after days 3-5 of labor, which occurs about 30%-80% in postpartum mothers. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of parenting counseling on postpartum blues incidence in the working area of Lubuk Buaya Community Health Center in 2017. The type of this research is Pre-Experiment conducted in the work area of Lubuk Buaya Puskesmas in 60 mothers of primigravida aterm (experimental and control group) selected by purposive sampling technique. The experimental group was given 1 time parenting counseling. All data were collected using questionnaires and data analyzed using the Wilcoxon test and Mann Whitney test, considered significant if p <0.05. The results of all respondents study age is not risky. The 37 weeks maternal gestational age categories in the experimental and control group were 73.3% and 63.3% and middle-level maternal education in the experimental and control group were 66.7% and 56.7%. With p-value<0,05, it means that parenting counseling done to mother and her husband is effective to increase mother's knowledge about parents readiness and there is difference / decrease of postpartum blues event. From the result of this study it can be conclude there is Parenting counseling performed on primigravida mothers is effective in improving maternal knowledge about parental readiness and there are differences in postpartum blues events between mothers given parenting counseling and those not given counseling.