Keterlibatan Suami dalam Menjaga Kehamilan Istri di Puskesmas Kecamatan Kuta Alam Banda Aceh, Provinsi Nangroe Aceh Darussalam

Husbands involved in reproductive health is known to give positive impacts especially for mother health services. Husbands may take major roles in supporting during pregnancy. It has not been known how the husbands take parts in supporting and careing their wives\u27 pregnanies. The objectives of this study were to find out husbands\u27 involvement in taking care their wives\u27 pregnacies (cheking their nutrition/food, cheking their pregnancies from the early stage, and making sure that giving births are assissted by health workers) based on age, education, and occupation of the husbands. This study was a cross sectional study located at Kuta Alam sub district (Banda district). The respondents were 96 husbands of pregnant mothers who lived at the Kuta Alam community Health Center\u27s areas, Banda Aceh. Data collection used structural interview to responsdents and analysed by Chi-square test. Result of the study showed: 1) More than 75% husbands were commonly involved in care of safe guarding the pregnancy of their wives. In the process of healthy reproduction, especially on the stage of pregnancy, the involvement and care of husbands are expected to grow; 2) The husbands\u27 education level, age and the occupational were significant (p < 0,05) to influence of providmg cares on nutrition/food to the pregnant wives, on early-stage pregnancy chek-up and in making sure that giving birth was taken care by paramedics. The continuing of the study is needed to implement in remote areas to cover the problems of gender\u27s roles, especially husbands who linked with reproductive health