Abstract
Hadiza Mustapha Namadi* and Aondover Eric Msughter Author Affiliations Department of Mass Communication, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria Received: September 21, 2020 | Published: September 29, 2020 Corresponding author: Hadiza Mustapha Namadi, Hadiza Mustapha Namadi, Department of Mass Communication, Bayero University, Nigeria DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2020.30.005006
Highlights
Health professionals and health workers target different categories of people using sources of information including the mass media of communication
Scholars like [10,18] have linked the high maternal mortality ratios to the inaccessibility of health services, lack of functional and effective health care systems, and more importantly, the non-use of modern maternal health care services, such as antenatal care, delivery care and postnatal care, that is why reproductive health information should be provided to pregnant women in order to reduce the number of deaths to occur, within this context, the study is conducted in order to survey the reproductive health information seeking behaviour among pregnant women going for antenatal in some selected hospitals in Kano Metropolis
Reproductive health information seeking behaviour among pregnant women in Kano metropolis play an important role in helping pregnant women understand issues relating to their health and the babies
Summary
Health professionals and health workers target different categories of people using sources of information including the mass media of communication. Scholars like [10,18] have linked the high maternal mortality ratios to the inaccessibility of health services, lack of functional and effective health care systems, and more importantly, the non-use of modern maternal health care services, such as antenatal care, delivery care and postnatal care, that is why reproductive health information should be provided to pregnant women in order to reduce the number of deaths to occur, within this context, the study is conducted in order to survey the reproductive health information seeking behaviour among pregnant women going for antenatal in some selected hospitals in Kano Metropolis. How useful were the sources of maternal information to pregnant woman in Kano metropolis?
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