Understanding Of Family To Choose The Place Of Labor In Tanjung Health Center Working Area

The choice of labor place that is not ideal will have a direct impact on mother and baby health. It can be happened because each pregnancy has risk of an emergency situation during labor. Although labor has been assisted by health workers, many deliveries still carried out at home and still happened in Tanjung Health Center area. Accordingly, we need to know more deeply about the family understanding and consideration to choose the place of labor in Tanjung Health Center working area. This research is a qualitative research with case study approach and purposive sampling technique. The research was carried out by collecting data through in-depth interview with four main informants as head of family and nine triangulation informants in the working area of Tanjung Health Center. The data was analyzed by interactive model. The results of this study showed Families view the labor as an important event including feeling of sadness, fear, and anxiety. In decision making of helper and labor place, the family have to consider carefully about the cost, family trust in midwife who will help the labor process, so it can be concluded that the understanding of family in choosing the place of labor is motivated by economic factor, trust in health workers in assisting childbirth, and information that was obtained by the family from health workers