Knowledge, attitude and practice regarding folic acid among pregnant women in Benghazi, Libya

Abdulmalek, Lubna Jamal

doi:10.4103/1947-489x.210113

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“…This result was in agreement with in a study entitled "Assessment of knowledge, attitude and perceived practices on the importance of foliate among Filipino women of childbearing age in the province of Batanga " who found more than three quarters of pregnant women had fair (negative) level of attitude towards folic acid tacking during pregnancy. On the other hand, result was in disagreement with Abdulmalek (2019) in a study entitled "knowledge, attitude and practice regarding folic acid among pregnant women in Benghazi, Libya" who found majority of the interviewed pregnant women have a positive attitudes towards taking folic acid supplements.…”

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Knowledge and attitudes of pregnant women regarding folic acid supplementation

Mahmoud¹,

Moneim²,

El-Sayed³

et al. 2022

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Background: Folic acid (FA) supplementation is an important intervention to avoid complications during pregnancy on the women and fetus. Aim of the study: To assess knowledge and attitudes of pregnant women regarding folic acid supplementation. Design: A descriptive design was used. Setting: The study was conducted at antenatal clinical at Badr University Hospital, Cairo, Egypt. Sample: A Convenience sample was utilized to recruit 120 pregnant women. Tools: Three tools for data collection were used. First tool: A structured interviewing questionnaire to assess demographic data, obstetric and menstrual history. Second tool: Pregnant women's knowledge regarding folic acid supplementation. Third tool: Pregnant women's attitudes regarding folic acid supplementation. Results: The current study showed about the majority of pregnant women having low level of knowledge regarding folic acid supplementation, while the half of pregnant women had negative attitudes regarding folic acid supplementation during pregnancy. Conclusion: the study pregnant women had unsatisfactory level of knowledge and negative attitudes regarding folic acid supplementation. Recommendation: Developing program to increase awareness regarding folic acid supplementation among pregnant women.

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Knowledge and attitudes of pregnant women regarding folic acid supplementation

Mahmoud¹,

Moneim²,

El-Sayed³

et al. 2022

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“…Likewise, similar study in Texas (USA) showed a significant association ( ≤ 0.001) of level of awareness with education level [24]. On the contrary, study done in Libya revealed that awareness has no association with educational level, as there was no significant difference in awareness level between the women who got basic education and formal education, there the significant difference among them was due to better health delivery system [25]. Hence this reflects that sound health delivery system is also a strong predictor of increasing level of awareness.…”

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Awareness of Folic Acid Intake among Women of Childbearing Age in Ha’il region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Khan

Alahmed

Alsaad

et al. 2021

JPRI

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Background: Folic acid deficiency is one of the most common vitamin deficiencies among women of childbearing-age. Folic acid is a water-soluble B-complex vitamin. Although the deficiency is easily corrected by administration of folic acid, but still the prevalence of folic acid deficiency is high. It can lead to neural tube defects (NTDs) in fetus, which are a major cause of severe disability and mortality among infant population, occurring in over one quarter of a million new-borns per year, worldwide. NTDs occur in the very early phase of pregnancy when the mother herself does not know that she is pregnant. This study has assessed awareness of women of childbearing age on folic acid i.e., timing of folic acid supplementation, different sources, symptoms of its deficiency, toxicity and its effect on fetus. Study was conducted in Ha’il region and its suburbs, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the period between October 2020 and February 2021. Methodology: An analytical cross-sectional community-based study was carried out among 842 women aged between18 and 45 years using a close-ended questionnaire. Results: In total, Folic Acid was taken by just 23.87% of participants. Only 33% knew that Folic Acid deficiency causes neural tube defects in fetus. Further it was revealed that postgraduates had a significantly better knowledge on Folic Acid 0.000) than others. Similarly, those who belonged to household where total monthly income was 5000 Saudi Riyals or more had better awareness on Folic Acid than participants who belonged to low socioeconomic status ( 0.05). Conclusion: It’s concluded that in Ha’il and its suburb area, women of childbearing age do not possess adequate knowledge on Folic Acid. Neural tube defects in fetus due to folic acid deficiency were not known by a large majority of respondents. However, awareness has a strong association with educational level and socioeconomic status. Hence it is recommended that female literacy and female employment should be promoted, encouraged and supported in Kingdom in order to improve our health indicators.

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“…This is in keeping with a previous study on knowledge, attitude and practice of folic acid among pregnant women in Benghazi, Libya which shows that only 37% of the participants could correctly identify the effect and importance of folic acid when used periconceptionally. 21 The study went further to access the relationship of the participant's perceived importance and their socio-demographic variables and their obstetrics history, the result showed that the participant's perceived importance has no association with age, level of education, residence and number of pregnancies of the participants.…”

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Perception of preconception care among women attending antenatal care clinic in a tertiary health care hospital in south east, Nigeria

Nwaolisa¹,

Ekwebene²,

Darlington³

et al. 2021

Magna Sci. Adv. Res. Rev.

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Preconception care is the provision of biomedical, behavioral and social health interventions to women and couples before conception occurs. This study aimed to assess women’s knowledge, practice, perceived views and ideas and associated factors in preconception care amongst women attending antenatal care at Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, Anambra state, Nigeria. A facility based cross-sectional study conducted among 150 randomly selected reproductive age group women who attended antenatal clinic from September 9 to September 26, 2020.The data were collected using self-administered and interviewer-administered questionnaires. The data were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 20.0. The study revealed 31.3% overall knowledge of preconception care. The knowledge level on preconception care was significantly associated with occupation, level of education, residence, number of pregnancies and past obstetrics complications. Age has no association with the level of knowledge. Only about one-fifth of the participants have good knowledge of the importance of folic acid use prior to and during pregnancy (17.3%), 32% had wrong knowledge and the rest had no knowledge (50.7%). Majority of the participants (87.7%) had prospective views concerning preconception care encouraging every woman to partake in it. In this finding, the level of women’s knowledge on preconception care was very low. Having a high level of education, living in urban area and having an obstetrics history were associated with good knowledge. The finding also showed positive views on the uptake and practice preconception care. This finding suggests that there is a need to give more emphasis on educating women on preconception care with the sole aim of achieving a sound maternal and child health.

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Knowledge, attitude and practice regarding folic acid among pregnant women in Benghazi, Libya

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

Knowledge and attitudes of pregnant women regarding folic acid supplementation

Knowledge and attitudes of pregnant women regarding folic acid supplementation

Awareness of Folic Acid Intake among Women of Childbearing Age in Ha’il region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Perception of preconception care among women attending antenatal care clinic in a tertiary health care hospital in south east, Nigeria

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