devita, Yelvira2012-12-042012-12-042012-12-03yenihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/788ABSTRACT Complications in pregnancy is a major cause of the increase in maternal mortality rate. One of the efforts to decrease maternal mortality rate is by doing Antenatal care (ANC). As for the factors that influence of pregnant mother to doing ANC are knowledge and attitude of pregnant mother about ANC. Goal of this research is to assess the effectiveness of counseling to increase knowledge and attitudes about the importance of ANC in pregnant woman in working area of Muara Fajar Public Health Center. The method of this research is pre-experimental with pre test-post test one group study desaign. The sample of this research is 43 people using total sampling technique. The research variable is analyzed using wilcoxon test with α=0,05. The result of this research showed respondents have good knowledge (9,3%) and positive attitude (65,1%) before counseling and there are an increasing number of respondent who has good knowledge (20,9%) and positive attitude (81,4%) after counseling. The test of analyzed show that there is not effectiveness of counseling to improve pregnant mother’s knowledge about the importance of ANC with p value 0,101 and there is not effectiveness of counseling to improve pregnant mother’s attitude where is p value 0,135. In conclusion, counseling is not effective to improving knowledge and attitude of pregnant woman despite there are an increasing knowledge and attitude after counseling.otherThe level of knowledgethe attitudeBefore and after counselingAntenatal careArticle