Abstract
Objective: To determine the awareness, practice, knowledge and attitude toward the Covid 19 among antenatal patients at tertiary care Hospital.
 Methodology: This was a cross sectional survey which was conducted at Gynae and obstetrics department at Liaquat University Hospital Hyderabad. Study duration was six months from March 2020 to August 2020. All the pregnant women visited antenatal clinic age 18 to 40 years and either of parity were included. All the pregnant females were interviewed by using a questioner regarding awareness, attitude and practice toward the Covid19 after taking informed consent. All the data was recorded via study proforma. Data was analyzed by using SPSS version 20.
 Results: Total 173 pregnant women were interview regarding COVID-19, their mean age was 29.34+13.12 years. Most of the women were presented with age between 18 to 37 years. 70.5% were multigravida and majority of women were uneducated. Mostly women 75.1% had heard regarding. 72.8% women said, they should stay at home and 25.4% said should wear the face mask, while 38.7% said the women should inform the health care provider in advance before visit to Hospital if developed any symptom. Most of the women had good knowledge and attitude, while preventive practice was found to be unsatisfactory.
 Conclusion: knowledge and awareness were found to adequate; while preventive practice has been observed unsatisfactory among pregnant women during antenatal clinic. Clinicians should provide appropriate counseling to reassure and elucidate doubts of pregnancy females regarding COVID-19 during antenatal visits.
Highlights
The unique Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), a newly emergent respiratory disease, has become an international issue and a pandemic without any treatment available.[1]
Pregnancy is among the most vulnerable times for individuals suspected/detected with COVID19 infection, there is currently little information regarding the clinical features of expectant mothers who suffer from COVID-19.[4] higher maternal age, presence of comorbidities, and high body mass index have been considered to be the risk factors of severe COVID-19 development among expectant mothers.[5]
To prevent the virus from transmitting to family members, expectant mothers and their family members must be instructed about the basic measures of infection prevention and control (IPC), personal hygiene, and the way to care for the individual suspected of carrying COVID-19 infection, as carefully as possible,[2,10,11] as most of the pregnant women were found with poor knowledge and inappropriate practice.[12]
Summary
The unique Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), a newly emergent respiratory disease, has become an international issue and a pandemic without any treatment available.[1]. This study has been conducted to determine the awareness, practice, knowledge and attitude among antenatal patients towards the Covid 19 at tertiary care Hospital
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