Implementation of Health Belief Model in Incidence of Low Birth Weight Babies: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

LBW babies is defined by WHO as birth weight of less than 2500 grams regardless of gestational age, having adverse consequences on infant survival as well as physical and cognitive development. HBM is considered very suitable to be applied to pregnant women to reduce prevalence of LBW babies because it is based on maternal beliefs or beliefs about behaviors that can make mother herself not want baby born with LBW. The aim of study was to analyze how study on implementation of HBM on incidence of LBW babies and its trends and to find out what topics can be used as study variables in future. Study method is literature review using bibliometric analysis approach starting from defining keywords 'health belief model' and 'LBW babies' in Publish or Perish application with Google Scholar as database. Then results were narrowed down by selecting special topic on 'implementation of HBM on incidence of LBW babies', 65 related articles were obtained for review from 112 articles from the initial search results. Mendeley application was used to compile meta data and Vosviewer application was used to create research visualization trends. Results showed that classification of research on implementation of HBM on incidence of LBW babies in health sector was divided into seven clusters with topics centered on implementation of HBM on incidence of LBW babies. Themes related to implementation of HBM on incidence of LBW babies still require further research development because results of visualization analysis that two keywords have no research linkage.