scholarly journals Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Regarding Hospital Delivery among Rural Married Women in Northern Bangladesh

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-20
Author(s):  
Nawzia Yasmin ◽  
Khairul Alam ◽  
Suman Lahiry ◽  
Mahmud Hossain Faruquee ◽  
Tamjida Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Emergency Obstetric Care ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Safe Motherhood ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Hospital Delivery ◽  
Safe Delivery ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Various programs for safe motherhood aiming to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality are undertaken by public sectors as well as the NGOs. This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on the married women in their reproductive age (15-40y) belonging to 211 households of Shitlai village of Kahalu Thana of Bogra district in Bangladesh from January to April 2007. Using a semi-structured questionnaire, data were collected by door-to-door visits and through face-to-face interviews with the respondents. Considering the knowledge on safe motherhood and safe delivery, majority of the respondents (98.6%) mentioned that every pregnant mother should receive antenatal care, and 97.6% said that pregnancy is a period of risk. Regarding safety, 96.2% mentioned hospital delivery as safe, while 80.6% mentioned home delivery as a risk. Among the respondents, 70.1% said that ANC is important, 29.9% was found to be informed of child birth complications, 16.1% knew the duration of pregnancy, 8.1% knew the danger signs of pregnancy, 4.7% about emergency obstetric care (EOC), 4.3% about expected date of delivery (EDD), 2.4% about safe motherhood and 28.4% about the access of health facilities in the village. Among the respondents, 85.3% showed a positive attitude towards hospital delivery while 14.7% had a negative attitude. Study also showed that majority of the respondents (66.8%) had delivered at home, and only onefourth of the respondents delivered their index child in a hospital. Thus the study recommends to improve the knowledge, economic status, to change the decision making process through the launching of different activities with appropriate health programmes. Ibrahim Med. Coll. J. 2009; 3(1): 17-20 Key Words: Knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP), hospital delivery, married women   doi: 10.3329/imcj.v3i1.2914

scholarly journals Knowledge, attitude and practice of family planning among married women of reproductive age in a VDC of eastern Nepal

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Uprety ◽  
I S Poudel ◽  
A Ghimire ◽  
M Poudel ◽  
S Bhattrai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Modern Contraceptive ◽  
Contraceptive Methods ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Contraceptive use and fertility rates vary substantially among developing countries. An important factor, which affects the fertility of any population, is Contraceptive. Contraceptive use varies by age. Nepal over the past 15 years show an impressive increase in the use of modern contraceptive methods from 26 percent in 1996 to 43 percent in 2011. Objectives of the is to assess the knowledge, attitude regarding family planning and the practice of contraceptives among the married women of Dhabi VDC of Eastern Nepal. A descriptive cross-sectional observational study was done in Dhabi VDC. Total of 300 married women age 15-49 sample were taken from family planning center situated in Dhabi. Knowledge, attitude and practice on contraceptives were evaluated with the help of a predesigned questionnaire. Descriptive analysis was done by using SPSS 11.5 software to obtain frequencies and percentages. Out of 300 interviewed women, the mean age was 27.94 years, 98% had heard about Family planning method. Radio was the main Source of family planning information. Regarding the usage of contraceptive methods, about 79.3% had ever used and 63.3 had current using some sort of contraception, among the method used Injectables were the commonly used methods About 71% of married women other child in the further. Despite the knowledge of all family planning methods majority of the women used Injectables. Easily accessible and easily to use were the main reasons for choosing Injectables methods. 

scholarly journals Knowledge, attitude and practices about cervical cancer among rural married women: a cross sectional study

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radha Ramaiah ◽  
Srividya Jayarama
Keyword(s):  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Women Of Reproductive Age ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice ◽  
Reproductive Age Group

Background: Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer among women and the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths in females worldwide. The objectives of the study were to assess the level of knowledge, attitude and practice related to cervical cancer and its screening among women of reproductive age group in a rural area of Karnataka and to find the association between socio-demographic characters and knowledge, attitude and practice related to cervical cancer.Methods: A community based cross sectional study was conducted among 200 married women of reproductive age group residing in Javarnahalli, a rural field practice area of AIMS, Karnataka. Data was collected using predesigned, pretested structured questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of four parts to gather information regarding socio-demographic characteristics of participants, knowledge, attitude and practice regarding cervical cancer and its screening. Institutional ethical committee approval and informed consent from study participants were taken.Results: 64% study participants were not aware of the early symptoms of cervical cancer. Around 34.5% had heard of cervical cancer screening. 76.2% women were willing to screened if offered free of cost. But only 9.5% women had ever been screened for cervical cancer.Conclusions: Strategic communication targeting eligible women, universal availability of screening facilities in public health facilities may increase the uptake of cervical screening. 

scholarly journals INADEQUATE PRACTICE RELATED OF THE PAPANICOLAOU TEST AMONG WOMEN

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elainy Fabrícia Galdino Dantas Malta ◽  
Fabiane do Amaral Gubert ◽  
Camila Teixeira Moreira Vasconcelos ◽  
Emília Soares Chaves ◽  
João Marcos Ferreira de Lima Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Single Women ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Papanicolaou Test ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the factors related to inadequate practice of the Papanicolaou test among women in northeastern Brazil. Method: cross-sectional study using a KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE inquiry, performed from June to October, 2013, with 240 women aged between 24 and 59 years. Results: inadequacies were observed, particularly in knowledge, because, despite having information about the examination, it was only used to detect sexually transmitted infections. Regarding the issue of practice, it was noted that single women and those up to 29 years of age were more likely to present inadequate practice than the older and married women, increasing the likelihood of developing cervical cancer. The greater difficulty for performing the examination was the lack of materials (68.1%). Conclusion: clarification for women regarding the examination requires effective communication between the users and health professionals, as well as guarantees and support for the continuity of care by managers.

scholarly journals KAP study regarding contraceptive use among married women in Hayatabad, Peshawar

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 03-06
Author(s):  
Bibi Aliya ◽  
Aymen Imtiaz ◽  
Bakhtawar Hasnain ◽  
Seema Ashraf
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Prevalence Rate ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Contraceptive Prevalence Rate ◽  
Contraceptive Agents ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Contraceptive Prevalence ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Introduction: Population growth has great impact on economic development of a country. Despite population growth contraceptive prevalence rate in Pakistan is 35.4%. There is need to increase knowledge and awareness regarding contraception among people of Pakistan. Objectives: To determine the knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding contraceptive use among married women of Hayatabad, Peshawar, as well as the reasons for not adopting contraception. Materials & Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar, from March to May 2019 on married women attending the Gynecology Outpatients, who were willing to provide data. Participants were interviewed through a structured questionnaire containing demographics, and relevant sections on Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of contraceptive use; a section on reasons for not using contraceptives was also included. SPSS version 24.0 and Microsoft Excel were used for descriptive data analysis. Results: A total of 200 married women were interviewed through structured questionnaires; 76.5% of them were uneducated. The most prevalent method of contraception was Oral Contraceptive Pills (23%); 31% of participants fell below the poverty line with monthly household income of PKR 20,000 or below. Majority (83.2%) of women showed positive attitude towards contraceptive use. Conclusion: There is a need to create awareness about the use of contraceptive methods as this awareness is crucial to improve contraceptive prevalence rate of Pakistan. Keywords: Contraceptive Agents; Contraceptive Prevalence; Family Planning Services.  

scholarly journals KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF STIMULANT USE AMONG SECURITY PERSONNEL IN USMANU DANFODIYO UNIVERSITY, SOKOTO, NIGERIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunusa EU ◽  
Bakare AT ◽  
Shagari GB ◽  
Abubakar AM ◽  
Sharhabila Y ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
North West ◽  
Stimulant Use ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Security Personnel ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Background: The use and abuse of stimulants has become a serious public health problem resulting into both health and psycho-social negative effects. Objectives: The study assessed the knowledge, attitude and practice of stimulants use among security personnel. Methods: A cross sectional study conducted among 180 security personnel at Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, North-west Nigeria. Data was collected using a set of pretested, semi- structured, interviewer-administered questionnaire to obtain information on the socio-demographic characteristics of the study subjects, knowledge, attitude and practice of stimulants use. Data was analyzed using IBM SPSS version 20. Results: Majority (96.1%) had ever heard of stimulant use. Most of the respondents (87.8%) had adequate knowledge of stimulant use. A large proportion of them new that its abuse can be harmful (74.4%). Majority (73.6%) have negative attitude toward the use of stimulants. Less than a quarter (19.4%) use stimulant daily, 77.2% strongly agree that a colleague has ever been involved in the use of stimulants. Conclusion: Majority of the respondents demonstrated adequate knowledge of stimulant use and a large proportion of them new that when abused, it could be harmful. Majority have negative attitude towards use of stimulants. Security Personnel should be well informed on both the short and long term adverse effects of stimulants use.

scholarly journals Knowledge, attitude and practice of antibiotics and their determinants in Eritrea: an urban population-based survey

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. e046432
Author(s):  
Mulugeta Russom ◽  
Merhawi Bahta ◽  
Merhawi Debesai ◽  
Iyassu Bahta ◽  
Abrahalei Kessete ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Population ◽  
Processing System ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Secondary Outcome ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Secondary Outcome Measure ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

ObjectiveTo measure knowledge, attitude and practice of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance (ABR) and their determinants in the Eritrean urban population.DesignA population-based, nation-wide, cross-sectional study.SettingUrban settings of Eritrea.ParticipantsMembers of the general public aged ≥18 years and living in 13 urban places of Eritrea. Three-stage stratified cluster sampling was used to select the study participants.Data collection and analysisDate were collected from July 2019 to September 2019 in a face-to-face interview using a structured questionnaire. The collected data were double entered and analysed using Census and Survey Processing system (V.7.0) and SPSS (V.23), respectively. Descriptive statistics, χ2 test, t-tests, analysis of variance, factorial analysis and multivariable logistic regression were performed. All analyses were weighted and p<0.05 was considered significant.Primary and secondary outcome measuresMain outcome variables were knowledge, attitude and practice of antibiotics and ABR. Secondary outcome measure was the determinants of knowledge, attitude and practice.ResultsA total of 2477 adults were interviewed. The mean score of knowledge and attitude of antibiotics and ABR was 10.36/20 (SD=3.51, minimum=0 and maximum=20) and 22.34/30 (SD=3.59, minimum=6 and maximum=30), respectively. Of those who used antibiotics, the proportion of at least one inappropriate practice (use of antibiotics without prescription and/or discontinuation of prescribed antibiotics before completing the full course) was 23.8%. Young age <24 years (adjusted odds ratio (AOR)=1.61, 95% CI: 1.08 to 2.41), male sex (AOR=1.48, 95% CI: 1.14 to 1.91), higher level of education (AOR=1.76, 95% CI: 1.08 to 2.88), and negative attitude towards appropriate use of antibiotics (AOR=0.95, 95% CI: 0.92 to 0.97) were found to be the significant determinants of inappropriate practice of antibiotics.ConclusionThe gap in knowledge and inappropriate practice of antibiotics in the Eritrean urban population was widespread; requiring immediate attention from policy-makers and healthcare professionals.

scholarly journals Study of knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding birth spacing and methods available for spacing in rural Haryana, India

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1389
Author(s):  
Bindoo Yadav ◽  
Santvana Pandey
Keyword(s):  
Birth Spacing ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Sexually Active ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Child Spacing ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Background: Birth spacing is defined as the time interval between two births. India has average birth spacing of 22 months, i.e. little less than two years, despite wide knowledge of contraception. Objective of present study was to investigate the knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding birth spacing and methods available for spacing in rural Haryana amongst sexually active married females of reproductive age.Methods: Cross sectional study of 500 sexually active, married females of reproductive age with at least one live issue and not meeting any exclusion criteria was carried at SGT medical college, Gurgaon during 3 months from August 2017.Results: Awareness of need for birth spacing was very high (82.6%) in females interviewed, with 70% of females being aware of birth spacing benefits as well as keen to opt for birth spacing but even higher count of females (92.6%) reporting requiring husband’s consent for birth spacing. Only 40% females were practising birth spacing with 14.6% of females reporting in-law’s opposition as reason for not practising birth spacing.Conclusions: Education is a major factor improving awareness of need as well as benefits of child spacing, with all college studied females being aware of both. Education also leads to improvement in keenness for practising child spacing as well as having lesser opposition to practise of child birthing. Females with only girl child/children were less keen to practise child spacing. Rural geographies still have health personnel as significant source imparting awareness of child spacing.

scholarly journals Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on Family Planning among Married Muslim Women of Reproductive Age

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-242
Author(s):  
Usha Dhakal ◽  
Ram Bahadur Shrestha ◽  
Surendra Kumar Bohara ◽  
Samir Neupane
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Women Of Reproductive Age ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Planning Methods ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice ◽  
Family Planning Methods

Background: Maternal mortality is associated with the unmet need of family planning. Family planning has been subjected as taboos in the Muslim community with low use of its methods. Gulariya Municipality is the second largest community for Muslim. This research focuses on knowledge, attitude and practice of family planning among Muslim women of reproductive age.Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional study design was undertaken in Gulariya Municipality. Married Muslim women of reproductive age group from 164 households were interviewed using systematic random sampling. Key informant interview was also applied.Results: The percentage of women who have knowledge on family planning methods was found 94.5%. On the means of contraception, most of the women (73.2%) knew about Depo. The attitude of the respondents was seen positive. A total of 79.3% of women were found to have practiced temporary means of family planning while none of the women surveyed were found using permanent family planning methods. Association between all socio-economic and demographic factors with knowledge of family planning methods were found insignificant at 0.05 level of significance. However, association between wealth rank and practices on family planning shows statistically significant association. Conclusions: Majority of women have knowledge on family planning, but still lack knowledge on few method like condom. Most of them found practicing family planning, despite the practice was not seen being done regularly. Language barrier seems to be influencing knowledge, attitude and practice of family planning. The research warrants newer strategies to be developed and employed to deal with the multi-disciplinary prospective of family planning among Muslim women.Keywords: Family planning; knowledge, attitude and practice; muslim women

scholarly journals Knowledge, Attitude and Practice toward legalization of abortion among female students of Sabiyan secondary and preparatory school, Dire Dawa, Eastern Ethiopia, 2018. A descriptive cross-sectional study

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Legesse Abera ◽  
Adisalem Debebe
Keyword(s):  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Unsafe Abortion ◽  
Legal Abortion ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Abortion Law ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Dire Dawa ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Background: Ethiopian abortion law is relatively liberal, but due to lack of knowledge and negative attitude toward legalization of abortion among most women, shortage of safe abortion services provision and significant amount of sociocultural pressures women still go to unsafe abortion service. So the objective of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice toward legalization of abortion among female students of Sabiyan secondary school, Dire Dawa, March 20-30/ 2018. Subjects & Methods:   The study was conducted in Dire Dawa city,   in Sabiyan high school. An institutional based cross-sectional survey was employed on randomly selected female students. Data was collected using pre- tested self-administered questionnaire and analyzed using computer software SPSS version 24.0. Tables, graphs and charts were used for some variable to describe the results of the study. Results: A total of 320 regular female students were included making the response rate of 100%. Ethiopian abortion law was assessed only 40 (12.5%) of participants were knowledgeable and only 98 (30.6%) of the respondents were having positive attitude. Out of 24 (7.5%) who ever get pregnant, 15 (4.7%) seek for unsafe abortion and only 7 (2.2%) were having experience (practice) of legal abortion. Conclusion: there was a low level of knowledge of the revised Ethiopian abortion law among study participants and majority of the participants had a negative attitude towards legal abortion services and only few of them had practice of legal abortion. So focusing on awareness creation strategy by each stakeholder is an important.

scholarly journals Knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19 among Syrian people resident in Turkey

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (Special2) ◽  
pp. 278-285
Author(s):  
Saad Ahmed Ali Jadoo ◽  
Ilker Dastan ◽  
Mustafa Ali Mustafa Al-Samarrai ◽  
Shukur Mahmood Yaseen ◽  
Assiyeh Abbasi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Services ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Knowledge Score ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Attitude Score ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Background: Measuring knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19 helps policymakers observe knowledge gaps and provide key messages to people to act better against the pandemic. This study aims to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19 among Syrian people resident in Turkey.  Methods: A cross-sectional study designed to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19 among the Syrian people resident in Turkey. The data were collected via a web-based and self-administered questionnaire of 313 participants from 17-31 July 2020. SPSS version 16.0 was recruited to analyze the data using univariate and multivariable regression data analyses. Results: Our finding as the first study among Syrian people resident in Turkey found a high rate of good knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19 accordingly with 83.0%, 72.0%, 84.0%. Regression analysis showed that age-group of 45 years and more years, marital status of being married, female gender, living in urban area were significantly associated with upper knowledge score. Age-group of 45 years and more significantly associated with positive attitude score but inversely being married and unemployed statues significantly associated with a negative attitude. Regarding practice score, married and female people had better practice, but poor-rated health status was significantly associated with the weak practice. Conclusion: Although our finding showed a good rate for knowledge, attitude, and practice towards COVID-19, but it needs to improve cause of many barriers on Syrian people resident in Turkey, such as living in a crowded place, distant from health care services, losing whole or part of their income due to COVID-19 as an economic crisis, different language barriers. Some groups like men, people living in a rural area, and those unemployed or lost their job should be exposed by timely and accurate knowledge.

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