Behavior Of Pregnant Mothers To Prevent Malaria With Pre And Post Personal Counseling Methods

Background: : One of the public health problems that can increase maternal and infant mortality morbidity is malaria. The risk pregnancy complications occur in every pregnant woman threaten her life, so women must know what these are by providing information according to mother's needs related be right strategy reduce number complications. According WHO, 2015 new cases found worldwide was 214 million at same time there were 438,000 malaria which caused death. Based on data Malaria Endemicity per Regency/City Indonesia 2018, third level endemic districts Papua Province, namely Jayapura, Yapen Islands, Mimika, Boven Digoel, Sarmi, Keerom (Indonesian endemicity, 2018). previous patients who examined workers through blood tests, highest provinces (12.07%), West (8.64%) East Nusa Tenggara (1.99%). latest positive infections (Annual Parasite Incidence/API), all 2019 250,644 incidence 2019, Province province with 1769 category case.Destination: Analyzing behavior towards prevention method pre post personal counseling Working Area Sentani Health Center 2022.Method: This type research quasi-experimental a pre-post control design approach approaches two groups, intervention group treatment (personal counseling) (leaflets). collected primary secondary variables as independent changes knowledge, attitudes dependent variable. sample many 33 respondents each group. Sampling purposive sampling technique accordance predetermined criteria. instrument used attitude questionnaire. Analysis non-parametric test, Mc Nemar Mann-Withney test .Results: There change knowledge Center, Jayapura Regency results calculation x2 distribution table using degrees freedom 1 = 0.05 ie 3.841 obtained X 2 count 18 > value 0.000 < 0.05, while 7.04 0.021 differences groups 0.011 0.05. 25.03 0.031 5.93 1,000 0.001 21.33 6.32 0.500 <0.05 difference 0.013 <0.05.Conclusion: after being given about Work Keywords Behavior women, prevention, pre-counseling, post-counseling