Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Episiotomy Wound Care Among Third Trimester Primigravida Mothers

Jagminder Kaur, Bimla rani, Ramesh Kumari, Samuel P

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The study was conducted to assess knowledge and attitude regarding episiotomy wound care among third trimester primigravida mothers in selected hospitals, Amritsar, in a view to develop health education pamphlets The study adopted a descriptive survey approach. The Non-probability convenience sampling technique was used and size was 100 third trimester primigravida mothers. The tool consists of 3 sections, section 1 consists of demographic variables, and section 2 consists of a structured knowledge questionnaire section 3 consist of attitude scale. Split half method with Spearman’s Brown Prophecy formula was used to test the reliability of the tool and reliability of the knowledge questionnaire was 0.89 and for attitude scale was 0.90. The study result revealed that out of 100 samples, the majority of the samples had moderately adequate knowledge and minority of samples had adequate knowledge. Majority of the samples had favourable attitude whereas minority of samples had unfavorable attitude. There is positively a moderate correlation between knowledge and attitude. The study findings shows that there is significant association of knowledge and attitude scores with selected demographic variables such as age, education, occupation and family monthly income, at 0.01 level of significance.

Keywords: Knowledge, attitude, third trimester primigravida mothers, episiotomy wound

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jopnn.v1i1.25

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