ABSTRACT
This study was conducted in eighteen villages and five cities in Assiut Government to compare the knowledge of trained traditional birth attendants [TBAs] and untrained TBAs concerning labor. The study included 58 traditional birth attendants divided to 38 TBAs trained and 20 TBAs untrained. Data were collected through a questionnaire sheet during the period from February 1999 to May 1999 through the interview of the TBAs during the home visits for TBA on two days per week. The results of this study indicated that 87.9% of the sample were from rural areas and 12.1% from urban. Statistical significant differences were found between trained TBAs and untrained TBAs in relation to their knowledge about the time of enema and their knowledge about care during the preparation for labor. There was no statistical significant difference between the two groups in their knowledge related to most items