Self efficacy of pregnant women in areas affected by Covid 19

Abstract

Objective: Self efficacy is an important factor that plays a role in dealing with stress during pregnancy, especially during the Covid 19 pandemic era. This study aims to determine the self efficacy of pregnant women during the Covid 19 pandemic era.

Method: This is quantitative research with a cross-sectional design. The number of research subjects was 99 taken from the entire population or total sampling. Data were collected using the General Self-Efficacy Scale and analyzed by logistic regression.

Results: The result showed that the Profession and education of the research subjects have an effect on the self efficacy of pregnant women with a significance value of <0.05.

Conclusions: In Conclusion, profession is the most influential factor on the self efficacy of pregnant women in the Bandarharjo Village, North Semarang, Semarang, Central Java with an OR value of 0.101 and p-value 0.001.

Keywords: Covid 19; Pregnant women; Self efficacy.