Abstract
The objectives of my study was to assess the current Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of women belonging to reproductive age group of tehsil Hajira regarding antenatal care, to identify the barriers towards not seeking antenatal care, to compare the rural-urban antenatal care seeking behavior of these women and the services provided and to suggest viable recommendations in relation to creating awareness among rural and urban women regarding antenatal care. Descriptive cross sectional, comparative study, at Tehsil Hajira district Poonch AJK Pakistan. Data was collected through pre-structured questionnaire with both open and close ended questions given to respondents. Total of 400 sampled for the study (200 Urban and 200 rural women) questionnaires were completed, giving a response rate of 100%. The mean age of Responded rural women was 35.58±6.549 and urban women was 34.20±6.452. Most of the rural women had good knowledge about ANC (70%) others had bad knowledge (30%), while the urban had knowledge (80%). Attitude of rural women towards ANC was very low (38.43%) while the urban women had also bad attitude towards ANC (31%). The Mean score of ANC visits was 3.03±1.977 for rural women while it was satisfactory for urban women, 3.89±2,491. A significant difference was seen between Rural and urban women about ANC. Antenatal care is an important implication of quality of life and overall public health. In Kashmir, there is a poor maternal and child health services due to many barriers especially among rural women. Most of the rural women goes towards local private hospitals for delivery but urban women goes towards local private and out of city for delivery during last pregnancy. There is a significant difference between rural and urban women towards ANC.
Highlights
Antenatal care (ANC) is the everyday healthcare of expected healthful pregnant women much less symptoms, orderly diagnose the diseases or complications related to obstetrics and to make contributions with admire to lifestyle, pregnancy, antenatal care and delivery [1]
The results suggest that there is no significant relationship between knowledge and knowledge with attitude and attitude as the values of chi square indicates
The results suggest that there is no significant relationship between attitude and attitude with practices and practices as the values of chi square indicates
Summary
Antenatal care (ANC) is the everyday healthcare of expected healthful pregnant women much less symptoms, orderly diagnose the diseases or complications related to obstetrics and to make contributions with admire to lifestyle, pregnancy, antenatal care and delivery [1]. World Health Organization (WHO) device the secure motherhood bundle in 1994 comprised 4 components; antenatal care, circle of relatives planning, safe delivery, and vital obstetric care [2]. Maternal health and health care are important determinants of neonatal survival and child fitness results. Improvements of maternal and child health are important global public fitness goals [3]. For Provision of professional take care of all women before, throughout, and after childbirth is a key method for saving women’s lives and ensuring the first-rate practices of
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