Awareness of Obstetric Danger Signs among Pregnant Women in Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital

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ABSTRACT Due to lack of awareness about the danger signs of pregnancy women fail to seek care in the right time for life-threatening complications of pregnancy and child birth. This cross-sectional study was undertaken to assess the knowledge regarding danger signs among pregnant women. A self structured questionnaire was used in the study. For this, 100 women attending antenatal outpatient department (OPD) were enrolled. Chi-square test has been used to demonstrate the difference between study subject characteristics and level of significance selected for this study (p. 0.05). About 6.38% of subjects having good awareness about danger signs are from age group 20 to 25 years and 10.25% of subjects with good awareness are from 25 to 30 years. In case of 20% of subjects have fair knowledge that means they know about 50 to 75% of obstetric danger signs while 73% of subject has poor knowledge about danger signs. Among which majority, i.e. 46.48% of subjects are from age 20 to 25 years and 93.33% from large family size have poor awareness about danger signs. Majority of subjects having good knowledge about obstetric danger signs have completed their secondary (7.69%) and university (9.52%) education. About 61% of the subjects know about danger signs of pregnancy. Among which major source of knowledge is health personnel (57.37%) and other source of knowledge is mass media (42.63%). In case of 50% of subjects knows about bleeding. Thus, it is the most common obstetrical danger sign that is known by subject population. How to cite this article Vijay NR, Kumare B, Yerlekar DS. Awareness of Obstetric Danger Signs among Pregnant Women in Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital. J South Asian Feder Obst Gynae 2015;7(3):171-175.