321 Rahmawati, Naimah, Tarsikah, The Effect of Breastfeeding Management Training on the Understanding of ... The Effect of Breastfeeding Management Training on The Understanding of Exclusive Breastfeeding in Third Trimester Pregnant Women Lovy Fiara Zuninda Rahmawati 1 , Naimah 2 , Tarsikah 3 1,2,3 Midwifery Department, State Health Polytechnic of Malang, Indonesia JURNAL NERS DAN KEBIDANAN (JOURNAL OFNERS AND MIDWIFERY) http://jnk.phb.ac.id/index.php/jnk JNK History Article: Received, 26/05/2021 Accepted, 19/07/2021 Published, 15/12/2021 Keywords: Breastfeeding Management Train- ing, Understanding, Exlusive Breastfeeding Article Information Abstract Exclusive breast milk is the main food for infants aged 0-6 months. Malang City is one of the cities in East Java which still has less than optimal cover- age of exclusive breastfeeding than the set target. One of the factors that cause mothers not to give exclusive breastfeeding is because the working mother. The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of breastfeeding management training on understanding of exclusive breastfeeding in third trimester pregnant women. The design of the study used a quasi-experimen- tal using one group pre-test – post-test design. The sample was third trimes- ter pregnant women who work and get health services in Pandanwangi Pub- lic Health Center Malang which met the inclusion criteria of 35 people by total sampling technique. Breastfeeding Management Training was con- ducted in three meetings. Most of the pretest results (60%) were in the sufficient category, and almost all of the posttest results (97%) were good. The results of hypothesis testing with the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, the Z value obtained -5.166 with a p value (Asymp. Sig 2 tailed) of 0.000 (<0.05), proving that there was an effect of breastfeeding management training on understanding of exclusive breastfeeding in third trimester pregnant women at Pandanwangi Public Health Center, Malang City. © 2021 Journal of Ners and Midwifery 321  Correspondence Address: Politeknik Kesehatan Kemenkes Malang – East Java, Indonesia P-ISSN : 2355-052X Email: lovy.f98@gmail.com E-ISSN : 2548-3811 DOI: 10.26699/jnk.v8i3.ART.p321–327 This is an Open Access article under the CC BY-SA license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)