Abstract

This study was conducted to analyse the HIV/AIDS awareness levels of mothers in Rivers state using mothers attending the Ante-natal clinic of the Braithwaite Memorial (BMH specialist) Hospital, Port Harcourt in Rivers State and the influence of their social demographic variables. This Descriptive cross sectional study was carried out among 344 Pregnant Mothers attending BMH Ante-natal clinic from June 2, 2015 to July 29, 2015. Simple random sampling method was applied to collect data which were analysed with simple percentage calculations and the chi-square test using SPSS.Higher percentage of the respondents were within the active reproductive age-group of 26-35 (57%), most of them are married and living with their husband (84.3%), also 58.7% of them have attained tertiary educational level and are predominantly Christians (94.3%), 35% of them are self- employed and mostly reside in urban area (96%), finally 52% of them have at least a child. The chi-square X2 test result indicated that majority of the respondent have a high level of awareness on HIV/AIDS (96%). The result further showed that there were significant association between the Marital status, Educational level, Parity and the Respondents’ Level of awareness of HIV/AIDS, whereas, there were no significant association between Age, Religion inclination, Occupation , Residence and the Respondents’ HIV/AIDS level of awareness.

Highlights

  • INTRODUCTION The First case ofHIV/AIDS was reported in 1981 in the U.S.A, but its causative agent Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was first described in 1983 by Prof

  • Since the researcher could not interview the entire attendees of the various Ante-natal clinics in the hospital, the researcher used the simple random sampling technique to select the population for this study

  • Above, 57% of the respondents belong to 26-35 age-group, 26.7% of the respondents fell within the age-group of 15-25, 43respondents making 13% belong to the 36-45 age-group, whereas 13 out of the total respondents fell into the age-group of 46 and above age-group

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Summary

METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION

Section of pregnant mothers attending the Ante-natal clinic of BMH between the periods of June 2, 2015 to. Since the researcher could not interview the entire attendees of the various Ante-natal clinics in the hospital, the researcher used the simple random sampling technique to select the population for this study. The researcher with the assistance of few midwives administered the questionnaires only to mothers of second contact to the Ante-natal clinic, who were available at the period under review. Section A was designed to provide information on personal data of the respondents, while section B consist of itemized questions aimed at eliciting appropriate responses from the respondents and arranged on a Likert Scale, with respect to level of awareness. The likert scale categorized the level of awareness into three such as Low, Moderate and High

DISTRIBUTION OF THE SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES AND PERCENTAGE OF
DISTRIBUTION OF RESPONDENTS BY MARITAL STATUS
DISTRIBUTION OF RESPONDENTS BY LEVEL OF EDUCATION
ANALYSIS TWO
Findings
CONCLUSION
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