Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Obstetric Danger Signs During Pregnancy Among Mothers in Debre Birhan City Administration, North Shewa, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
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2014-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: Pregnancy complications are the major health problems among women in
developing countries. Approximately 529,000 women die from pregnancy related causes
annually and almost all (99%) of these maternal deaths occur in developing countries.
Objective: To assess knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers towards obstetric danger signs
during pregnancy in Debre Birhan City Administration, April, 2014.
Methods: A community based cross-sectional quantitative study was conducted in April,2014, on
a sample of 634 mothers who are at least 4 months pregnant for primi gravid and delivered in
the past 24 months selected from, 4 urban and 2 rural Kebeles of Debre Birhan city
Administration. Multistage sampling technique was employed to select the study participants.
Results: A total of 634 mothers were enrolled in the study giving a response rate of 99.7%. The
study participants from selected urban kebeles constituted 76.7%. Most (68.2%) of the study
participants were found to have poor knowledge. Respondents who got obstetric danger signs
information from media had 2.8 times good knowledge than those respondents who didn‟t get
information from the same source [AOR=2.8, 95%CI (1.7- 4.65)].52.7% of the study participants
had negative attitude. Participants who had formal education have 2.2times positive attitude than
a participants who had informal education [AOR=2.2, 95% CI (1.1- 4.4)].Out of 51(8.1%) who
experienced obstetric danger signs 44(7.0%) had Good practice.
Conclusion: Knowledge and attitude of study participants are not satisfactory (68% poor
knowledge and 52.7%) the practice of the study participants who had experienced obstetric
danger signs during pregnancy was good.
Recommendation: Awareness of key danger signs needs to be given priority as it prepares
women and their families for timely and appropriate decisions and action in case of obstetric
danger signs.
Key words: Danger signs, Pregnancy, Obstetric care
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Danger signs, Pregnancy, Obstetric care