TITLE:
Maternal’ Awareness of Antenatal Care on Impact of Mothers’ and Newborn Health in Bangladesh
AUTHORS:
Manju Ara Khatun, Shanzida Khatun
KEYWORDS:
Awareness, Impact, Mothers’, Newborns, Antenatal Care
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Nursing,
Vol.8 No.1,
January
31,
2018
ABSTRACT:
Background: Globally, maternal and infant morbidity and mortality is a serious public health
problem. Maternal mortality rate in Bangladesh is 176 per lack live
births which remain high as Government set target to be achieved by 2016.
Antenatal care is extremely important health care service for the mothers’ and
unborn fetus during pregnancy. It is well recognized that good antenatal care
improves maternal, perinatal and neonatal outcomes. Objective: To
identify the maternal awareness of antenatal care on impact of mothers’ and
newborn health in Bangladesh. Methods: The study was conducted by using
descriptive and cross-sectional
design. This study was approved by the appropriate authority and informed
consent forms were obtained from the participants. Two hundred forty-one of rural and two
hundred one urban mothers completed three sets of questionnaires: 1)
Socio-demographic, 2) Maternal Awareness and 3) Impact of Awareness. Content
validity was done by the experts and internal consistency of these instruments
was satisfactory with Cronbach’s alpha over 0.74. Result: The average
awareness scores of
rural and urban mothers were 18.54 ± 2.77
and 19.69 ± 2.16 respectively. The
mean scores of
impact on rural and urban mothers were 9.41 ± 2.13
and 9.39 ± 2.25 respectively.
Maternal’ awareness of antenatal care; impact of mothers’ and newborn health
were found
statistically significant (t = 68.54, p 0.001) and (t = 59.11, p 0.001) different among rural and urban mother’s. It
was observed that maternal’ awareness of antenatal care and impact of mothers’
and newborn health were significantly difference between rural and urban
mothers’ (x2 = 211.869,
p 0.004 and (x2 = 157.772,
p 0.002 respectively). Conclusions: The findings indicated that
maternal’ awareness of antenatal care on impact of mothers’ and newborn health
was statistically significant different between rural and urban mothers’.
Further intervention study is needed to evaluate the effect of intervention on
maternal and child health outcomes that represent the whole population.