Knowledge and practices regarding antenatal care among mothers of infants in an urban area of Amritsar, Punjab

Abstract

Background: Worldwide, approximately 830 women died every single day due to complications during pregnancy or childbirth in 2015. Most maternal deaths are preventable as the necessary medical interventions are well known. So the present study was conducted to find the knowledge and practices regarding antenatal care among the mothers of infants.Methods: The mothers having less than one year child according to the annual report of year 2017 were included in the study. A pre-designed questionnaire, which was pre tested was used to collect the information. Out of 332 mothers 327 were willing to participate in the study. House to house survey was done to collect the information. Statistical analysis was done by using SPSS 20.0.Results: Regarding the knowledge about the antenatal care 22.0% mothers had poor knowledge while 45.6% and 32.4% had average and good knowledge respectively. Age and education status of the mother had significant relation with the knowledge regarding ANC (p=0.00). 96% of mothers started ANC in first trimester. 79.5% of mothers had regular ANC visits during pregnancy. Regarding post natal visits 86.5% of the mothers visited for the same.Conclusions: Considerable gaps were found in the knowledge and practices regarding ANC. Health care workers play an important role in motivating the woman and her family to utilize the ANC services. The health workers should be trained adequately about the available ANC services. Community IEC activities should be increased to create awareness about the ANC services which are available free of cost in our country.

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“…The results of this study support previous research that the delivery of advice from health workers who are less familiar, insufficient, lack of encouragement from health workers, family support that is absent or not optimal and many factors including the motivation of pregnant women themselves so that technology-based health promotion media are needed information [19,20]. Knowledge and attitudes play an essential role in the quality of antenatal care received by pregnant women because knowledge is an obstacle for pregnant women to make antenatal visits; therefore health workers must provide high motivation so that pregnant women and their families can utilize the health care facilities provided by the government [21].…”

Knowledge of antenatal care among mothers of infants in rural area of Belagavi: a cross sectional study

“…21 Kaur et al concluded that 60% of mothers in their study were aware of danger signs. 18 In our study knowledge on antenatal care was found to be significantly associated with occupation and availability of BPL card. In a study conducted by Patel et al, no statistically significant association was found between occupation, family type and awareness on antenatal checkup.…”

“…17,18 In this study, 85% of the mothers had correct knowledge regarding the number of TT injections to be given during pregnancy as compared to 21.7% mothers in study conducted by Kaur et al and 90.7% of study participants as found by Bej. 2,18 91% of the mothers in this study were aware regarding requirement of more nutritious food during pregnancy as compared to 85% as found by Eram et al and 49% as found by Ade and Sujatha respectively in their studies. 17,19 In this study 25% of the participants were aware of meat being a rich source of iron and 42% claimed green leafy vegetables to be a good source of iron.…”

“…In a study conducted by Gyawali et al, 75% of the participants had correct knowledge regarding the minimum number of antenatal visits required during pregnancy, while Eram et al found it to be 60% among the mothers in their study and Kaur et al concluded it as 89% in their study participants. [16][17][18] 86% of the mothers in this study were aware about the requirement and importance of BP measurement during antenatal visits as compared to 100% and 97.2% as found by Eram et al and Kaur et al respectively in their studies. 17,18 In this study, 85% of the mothers had correct knowledge regarding the number of TT injections to be given during pregnancy as compared to 21.7% mothers in study conducted by Kaur et al and 90.7% of study participants as found by Bej.…”

“…[16][17][18] 86% of the mothers in this study were aware about the requirement and importance of BP measurement during antenatal visits as compared to 100% and 97.2% as found by Eram et al and Kaur et al respectively in their studies. 17,18 In this study, 85% of the mothers had correct knowledge regarding the number of TT injections to be given during pregnancy as compared to 21.7% mothers in study conducted by Kaur et al and 90.7% of study participants as found by Bej. 2,18 91% of the mothers in this study were aware regarding requirement of more nutritious food during pregnancy as compared to 85% as found by Eram et al and 49% as found by Ade and Sujatha respectively in their studies.…”