Knowledge regarding antenatal care services, its utilization, and delivery practices in mothers (aged 15-49 years) in a rural area of North India

Gupta, Rajiv Kumar; Shora, Tajali Nazir; Verma, AK; Jan, Rayaz

doi:10.4103/1119-0388.158401

Cited by 29 publications

(7 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Where as in post-test majority 71(71%) has positive attitude and 78 % of husbands had good knowledge about the antenatal care. In another study also similar outcome was shown, Mean knowledge regarding antenatal care has increased from 33.36% to 42 %, this study was conducted by Shora T et al 10 . In the current study, in pretest mean values attitude has increased from 28.49 to 33.36 among the spouses.…”

Section: Disccusionsupporting

confidence: 71%

Effectiveness of antenatal IEC Package On Knowledge and Attitude of Antenatal Mother’s Spouses

2020

IJFMT

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background: In a family, a spouse is the most important and liable family member to take care of the family members. He is the one who might take care of his wife in pregnancy period. Therefore, he must be knowledgeable regarding antenatal care of his wife in pregnancy, but in India, alas! There is no much involvement of husband in taking care of an antenatal women during pregnancy. Moreover, pregnant woman is a care taker of a family and they are majorly neglected, it is happening since decades due to lack of respect for a daughter-in -law in family. OBJECTIVES: 1. to evaluate the knowledge of pregnant woman's spouse about antenatal care. 2. To assess the attitude of antenatal mother's spouse regarding Antenatal care. 3. To assess effectiveness of antenatal care on IEC package the knowledge and attitude among the spouse of antenatal mother. Methodology: In this study researchers have adopted pre experimental one group Pre-test post-test design. It evaluates and assess the effectiveness of knowledge and attitude of antenatal care IEC package among antenatal mother's spouses. The researchers also described the association among level of knowledge as well as attitude using personal characteristics included in this study was age, religion, education, family income and no of children. The sample size is 100. Non probability purposive sample technique is used in present study. RESULT: In this section the mainconclusions of the present study have been discuss as follows. The posttest knowledge score showed at higher level than the pretest score. The mean post test score was greater than the mean pretest score. Thecalculated t-test statistic value and Corresponding p-value are small and the posttest attitude score was greater than the mean pretest score. Conclusion:It indicates that the IEC package was effective method for enlightening the knowledge and attitude of mother's spouses about antenatal care.

show abstract

Section: Disccusionsupporting

confidence: 71%

Effectiveness of antenatal IEC Package On Knowledge and Attitude of Antenatal Mother’s Spouses

2020

IJFMT

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…[1] On enquiring about the reasons for inadequate utilization of ANC services, Shora et al found that the three major responses were nonawareness, financial constraints and non-availability of transport facilities. [2]…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…WHO has recommended a minimum of four antenatal care (ANC) visits to ensure safe motherhood. [2] However, utilization of maternal healthcare services is low. In India more than one in five mothers received no antenatal care.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community Based Cross- Sectional Study to Assess the Utilization Pattern of Antenatal Health Care Services among Married Women of Reproductive Age Group in a Rural Area of Bihar

Vimal

Kumar

2020

AJMR

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Background: ANC services is important to ensure safe motherhood. The present study was conducted to assess the utilization of ANC services in rural area.Subjects and Methods:The present study was community based cross-sectional in nature conducted upon 180 currently married women having children of less than one year of age and living in the area covered by rural training center of the institute. Sociodemographic profile and details of utilization of ANC services were noted.Results:Most of the respondents belonged to the age group of 20-30 years. 37.2% of them were illiterate and 58.9% lived in nuclear family. 53.9% had institutional delivery and 42.2% had more than two children. 42.8% of mothers registered their pregnancy before 12 weeks. Only 17.2% mothers had four or more ANC visits. 87.2% of them were fully immunized against tetanus but only 11.1% consumed 100 or more IFA tablets. Lack of awareness was responsible in 28.2%, lack of transport in 16.8%, unwillingness in 34.2% and other reasons in 20.8% cases among the mothers not utilizing ANC services properly.Conclusion: Utilization of ANC services is poor in this area.

show abstract

“…11 Another recent study by Roy MP et al conducted in north central India, a total of 85.5% of were found to have had at least three antenatal check-ups during their pregnancy revealing a high utilisation of the services. 12 The tribal district of Kinnaur has the second lowest proportion of home deliveries among the six districts (14.3%) despite having the lowest female literacy rate (70.9%) as compared to 75.9% of the state.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Status of maternal care and immunisation services in a hilly state of north India: a cross sectional study

Parashar

Mazta

Dhadwal

et al. 2016

Int J Reprod Contracept Obstet Gynecol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Knowledge regarding antenatal care services, its utilization, and delivery practices in mothers (aged 15-49 years) in a rural area of North India

Cited by 29 publications

References 0 publications

Effectiveness of antenatal IEC Package On Knowledge and Attitude of Antenatal Mother’s Spouses

Effectiveness of antenatal IEC Package On Knowledge and Attitude of Antenatal Mother’s Spouses

Community Based Cross- Sectional Study to Assess the Utilization Pattern of Antenatal Health Care Services among Married Women of Reproductive Age Group in a Rural Area of Bihar

Status of maternal care and immunisation services in a hilly state of north India: a cross sectional study

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About