Knowledge and Attitude of Antenatal Mother Regarding High-risk Pregnancy in a Tertiary Care Hospital in West-ern India
Keywords:
Pregnancy, Public health, Maternal and child health, Anemia, Hypertension, DiabetesAbstract
Introduction: A high-risk pregnancy is one of the major public health issues across the world including
developing countries like India. Considering the importance of high-risk pregnancy, the present study
was conducted to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of pregnant women at a tertiary
care hospital in India.
Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study with structured questionnaires to 100 registered
pregnant women, aged between 18 and 45 years old was done.
Results: All respondents have good knowledge, attitudes, and practices during pregnancy. The high-risk
pregnancy status among respondents showed that there was no statistically significant differences to
various socio-demographic variables (p >0.05).
Conclusion: The participants have good knowledge, attitude and practices regarding high-risk pregnancy which indicate good penetration of IEC programme regarding the same. There was no difference in
knowledge, attitude and practices among various socio-demographic groups.
References
Alkema L, Chou D, Hogan D, Zhang S, Moller AB, et al. Global, regional and national level and trend in maternal mortality between 1990 and 2015, with scenario-based projection to 2030: A systematic analysis by the UN Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group. Lancet 2016; 387:462-474.
Alanazy W. Exploring maternal and health professional beliefs about the factors that affect whether women in Saudi Arabia attend antenatal care clinic appointments. Midwifery 2019;76: 36-44.
Effer SB. Biochemical and biophysical indices of fetal risk. Clin Perinatol. 1974 Mar;1(1):161–172.
Papiernik E, Kaminski M. Multifactorial study of the risk of prematurity at 32 weeks of gestation. I. A study of the frequency of 30 predictive characteristics. J Perinat Med. 1974;2(1):30–36.
Saigal S, Rosenbaum P, Stoskopf B, Milner R. Follow-up of infants 501 to 1,500 gm birth weight delivered to residents of a geographically defined region with perinatal intensive care facilities. J Pediatr. 1982 Apr;100(4):606–613.
Kumar SP, Anday EK, Sacks LM, Ting RY, Delivoria-Papadopoulos M. Follow-up studies of very low birth weight infants (1,250 grams or less) born and treated within a perinatal center. Pediatrics. 1980 Sep;66(3):438–444.
Shennan AT, Milligan JE. The growth and development of infants weighing 1,000 to 2,000 grams at birth and delivered in a perinatal unit. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1980 Feb 1;136(3):273–275.
Suuk AL, Veloshnee G. Factors influencing the choices of infant feeding of HIV positive mothers in Southern Ghana: The role of counsellors, mothers, families and socio-economic status. J AIDS HIV Res. 2011;3(7):129–137.
Yeo EA, Béquet L, Ekouévi DK, Krawinkel M. Attitudes towards exclusive breastfeeding and other infant feeding options--a study from Abidjan. Cote d’Ivoire J Trop Pediatr. 2005;51(4):223–226.
Chopra M, Rollins N. Infant feeding in the time of HIV: Rapid assessment of infant feeding policy and programmes in four African countries scaling up prevention of mother to child transmission programmes. Arch Dis Childhood [serial online]. 2007. [cited 2016 May 15];93:288–229.
Ruowei L, Scanlon KS, Serdula MK. The validity and reliability of maternal recall of breastfeeding practice. Nutr Rev [serial online]. 2005. [cited 2017 Feb 10];63(4):103–110.
Bhagavathula AS, Bandari DK, Elnour AA, et al. . A cross sectional study: The knowledge, attitude, perception, misconception and views (KAPMV) of adult family members of people living with human immune virus-HIV acquired immune deficiency syndrome-AIDS (PLWHA). Springer Plus. 2015;4:769
WHO PMTCT strategic vision 2010–2015: Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals [homepage on the Internet]. [cited 2016 Jun 13]. Available from: www.who.int /hiv/pub/mtct/strategic_vision.pdf
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The authors retain the copyright of their article, with first publication rights granted to Medsci Publications.
