A Descriptive Study to Assess the ‘Birth Preparedness’ in Third Trimester of Pregnancy among Antenatal Mothers in a Low Income Group Colony

Sushma Kumari Saini, Kanika Bhatia, Kalpana Khadwal, Jyotsana Verma, Jyoti Sharma, Jobanpreet Kaur, Suresh Kumar Bamania

Abstract


A study was taken to assess the ‘Birth Preparedness’ in third trimester antenatal mothers of low income group colony. Two types of performas were used in the study i.e. survey performa and interview schedule. A survey performa to identify and register antenatal mothers of third trimester was used. After validation nine questions were added to the standardized tool. Total enumeration sampling technique was used and total 65 third trimester antenatal mothers were interviewed. Method used for data collection was house to house survey. The findings of the study revealed that two third (64.7%) of antenatal mothers were moderately prepared. Most of the antenatal mothers comply with the WHO’s recommendations which includes registration of pregnancy in first trimester, more than three antenatal visits, receiving complete doses of TT injection, lab tests, taking iron and folic acid supplements, most of them had adequate knowledge about birth control measures and institutional delivery. They were having partial knowledge of danger signs of antenatal period, postnatal period and of new born. Similarly they had partial knowledge regarding care after normal vaginal delivery, caesarean section, breastfeeding, essential care of new born and immunisation schedule. The study shows that there is moderate ‘Birth Preparedness’ and suggested that there is a need for providing knowledge to the antenatal mothers about ‘Birth Preparedness’ through counselling, health melas and adding information about birth preparedness in antenatal card.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jopnn.v1i1.6

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