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Cadre Assistance in Improving Quality of Life Pregnant Women During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic has become a non-natural disaster that has brought a lot of losses, and has
been designated by the government as a national disaster. Pregnant women who were confirmed positive
for Covid-19 in September 2020 were 4.9% of the total 1,483 confirmed cases. Vulnerable groups for
Covid-19 infection are pregnant women, maternity, and newborns, which can increase the incidence of
morbidity and mortality in mothers and babies. Pregnancy is a transitional period with important physical
and emotional changes, the changes that occur can affect the quality of life of pregnant women and affect
the health of mothers and babies. Modification of health services during the Covid-19 pandemic is needed
when there is a change in essential health services, especially community-based health efforts by
maximizing the function of health cadres. This type of research is a quasi-experimental with one group pre
and post test with control group design. Sample number 15 pregnant women in the third trimester each
group. The assistance of 1 cadre 1 pregnant women is carried out 1x/week for 3x, with activities including:
learning material for the MCH Handbook as a substitute for classes for pregnant women, pregnancy
exercise and providing material for service guidelines during the Covid-19 period. The research instrument
is WHOQOL-BREF. The data normality test was carried out by Shapiro Wilk and the data analysis was
carried out using the Wilcoxon Test. There is a significant effect of cadre assistance on the quality of life
of pregnant women in the physical, psychological, social and environmental domains during the Covid-19
pandemic with p-value = 0.001 in all domains. The need for intensive assistance from health cadres to
pregnant women during the Covid-19 pandemic to improve the quality of life.
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