Nurgi, Sodere (2014) Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Obstetric Danger Signs During Pregnancy Among Mothers in Debre Birhan City Administration, North Shewa, Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
![[img]](http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png) |
PDF (Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Obstetric Danger Signs During Pregnancy Among Mothers in Debre Birhan City Administration, North Shewa, Amhara Region, Ethiopia)
pdf thesis final.pdf - Accepted Version Restricted to Repository staff only Download (1MB) | Request a copy |
Abstract
Background: Pregnancy complications are the major health problems among women in developing countries. Approximately 529,000 women die from pregnancy related causes annually and almost all (99%) of these maternal deaths occur in developing countries. Objective: To assess knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers towards obstetric danger signs during pregnancy in Debre Birhan City Administration, April, 2014. Methods: A community based cross-sectional quantitative study was conducted in April,2014, on a sample of 634 mothers who are at least 4 months pregnant for primi gravid and delivered in the past 24 months selected from, 4 urban and 2 rural Kebeles of Debre Birhan city Administration. Multistage sampling technique was employed to select the study participants. Results: A total of 634 mothers were enrolled in the study giving a response rate of 99.7%. The study participants from selected urban kebeles constituted 76.7%. Most (68.2%) of the study participants were found to have poor knowledge. Respondents who got obstetric danger signs information from media had 2.8 times good knowledge than those respondents who didn‟t get information from the same source [AOR=2.8, 95%CI (1.7- 4.65)].52.7% of the study participants had negative attitude. Participants who had formal education have 2.2times positive attitude than a participants who had informal education [AOR=2.2, 95% CI (1.1- 4.4)].Out of 51(8.1%) who experienced obstetric danger signs 44(7.0%) had Good practice. Conclusion: Knowledge and attitude of study participants are not satisfactory (68% poor knowledge and 52.7%) the practice of the study participants who had experienced obstetric danger signs during pregnancy was good. Recommendation: Awareness of key danger signs needs to be given priority as it prepares women and their families for timely and appropriate decisions and action in case of obstetric danger signs.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Danger signs, Pregnancy, Obstetric care |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics R Medicine > RT Nursing |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Emmanuel Ndorimana |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2018 09:57 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2018 09:57 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/7812 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |