ABSTRACT

Background: Pregnant mother health is very important during pregnancy period. Pregnant mother health monitoring to detect complication is conducted by a routine antenatal care. Pregnant women are recommended to do antenatal care at least four times, once in the first trimester, once in the second trimester, and twice in the third trimester. Currently, Indonesia is experiencing a COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020; the number of cases per April 17, 2020, has now reached 6,248 patients.Since the pandemic hit this country the government has imposed social distancing, this is done to reduce the spread of the virus.

Aim:To analyze pregnant mother self-empowerment during Covid-19 pandemic in Mustika Jaya District, Bekasi.

Methods: The method used in the research was mixed method. Deep interview was used to implement qualitative research design and cross-sectional approach was used to conduct quantitative research design with 66 pregnant mothers as the samples.The recommendation to carry out routine pregnancy checks or antenatal care is an effort to reduce the complication rate both during pregnancy and during delivery.

Result:of in-depth interviewshowed that psychologically, pregnant mother in a COVID-19 pandemic experience anxiety, which causes discomfort such as insomnia. The results of the bivariate test showed a significant relationship between age, parity, gestational age, occupation, anxiety level and education with self-empowerment of pregnant women during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Conclusion: The pandemic situation affects the psychology of pregnant mother. The education level is a dominant variable in increasing the self-empowerment of a pregnant woman toward a situational change during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Keywords: Pregnant mother. Empowerment, Covid-19.