Objective To study the effect of evidence-based nursing combined with KAP model on health education to the parturients from suburbs.Methods According to problems in 200 pregnant women from suburban areas, health education was performed to them using evidence-based nursing and KAP model. The rate of access to knowledge, confidence about laboring, spontaneous participation in action to promote delivery, natural birth rate, episiotomy rate, breastfeeding rate and rate for satisfaction with midwives were compared between pre-and post-health education.Results After intervention, their access to knowledge, confidence about laboring, spontaneous participation in action to promote delivery were obviously improved than those before intervention(P<0.05). The rate of natural birth, cesarean delivery, forceps delivery and satisfaction with midwives were 66.0 %, 30.0 %, 1.0% and 94.4 %, respectively.Conclusion Evidence-based nursing and KAP model is effective in the health education to pregnant women from suburbs.