A Comparative study to assess the knowledge regarding antenatal care among primi antenatal women in selected urban and rural areas

Abstract

Background: Antenatal care (ANC) is the care given to pregnant women and adolescent girls by skilled health care professionals to ensure the best health conditions for both mother and baby during pregnancyin order to avoid health issues in both the foetus and the mother, as well as healthy behaviours and parenting skills. Objectives: The present study aims to knowledge of primi antenatal mother regarding antenatal care, to compare and to determine the association between the level of knowledge regarding antenatal care in rural and urban primi antenatal mothers with selected demographic variables. Materials & Methods: Quantitative research approach with a community-based cross-sectional comparative study design with samplesize of 60 primigravida mothers both rural (30 samples) at PHC, and urban (30 samples) at UHC by a non-probability convenient sampling method. The first section compiles demographic variables such as age, age at marriage, last menstrual period, expected date of delivery, religion, family type, educational status, occupation, income, place of residence, gestational weeks, and source of health information. Section B is a Semi-structured questionnaire designed to assess antenatal care knowledge. Results: The results the study revealed thatthe comparison of Mean knowledge on Antenatal care among Primi antenatal women in Rural & Urban area. It is evident that there was a highly significant difference in knowledge on antenatal care among rural and urban primigravida mother at P < 0.001 Conclusion: The finding of the study concluded that primi mothers due to the various source of information mothers get educated had good knowledge regarding antenatal care which indicated that there was still lack of knowledge in few aspects of antenatal care.