Client's profile of users of traditional birth attendants in Sharkia, Egypt

A random samples of 200 women attending the outpatient department of a University Hospital and two maternal child health centers in Zagazig were interviewed during their routine child supervision within the first three months after delivery. The study revealed that the TBA conducted 95 [47.5%] of the deliveries and [68.0%] of the births in the samples took place in a home. Women preferred to have their babies delivered by TBAS because they are easily accessible and provide them with the needed support. With them they feel much more at ease, comfortable and that their labor will be normal. They share with the family the whole experience and they are less expensive. Housewives and illiterate mothers are more likely to prefer TBA. A significant relationship was found between mother choice of birth attendant and their level of social class. Mother's age and parity played a significant role in the choice for birth attendant. Older women and grand multipara were more likely to resort to TBA at the time of birth. Almost half [47.27%] of those who had medico-obstetrical risk were attended by TBA. In most of the groups the TBA was most highly used and nurse midwife was the least used. The underutilization of he nurse midwife needs much attention and further study. Additional training and supervision of the TBA should be provided to maximize the benefits gained from her and to ensure safe motherhood

Effect of a training programme on nurses knowledge of aspects of maternity care

The study was done to inquire about nurse knowledge, attitudes and practices that tanta nurse have regarding the preventive aspects of maternity care [BSE, pap smear and pelvic examination] and to find out the effect of training programme on their knowledge and attitides. The study was conducted on a selective basis, 50 nurses of different categories were selected for this study. The samples covered the different hospitals in Tanta and El Mahalla El Kobra. Of the fifty nurses who attended this programme, 26 were working in El Mabarrah hospital in El Mahalla El Kobra. The rest [24] were working in El Mabarrah and El Helal hospital and its related O.P. clinics in Tanta. They were equally divided into two groups. A structured pretest was designed and administrated to the nurses at the begining of the programme to collect hasic data, nurse's knowledge attitude and practices of BSE, pap smear and pelvic examination. The post test was administrated immediately after conducting the training programme to test the improvement in their knowledge and attitudes. The study revealed that most of nurses lacked the basic and essential knowledge in relation to BSE, pap smear and pelvic examination especially before the training programme. It also revealed that giving information and demonstration was significantly effective. It was also noticed that nurses who had correct and complete knowledge had favourable attitude toward BSE especially after performing the programme. The study also revealed that the main source of nurses' knowledge was gynaecologist, friends magazine, study and T.V.

Factors affecting mother's awareness regarding immunization of children in Tanta

A sample consisting of 120 mothers of at least one child whose age ranged between two and four years was selected. The study was carried out at two maternal and child health centers in Tanta City; namely, Kohafa and Said maternal and child health centers. A specially designed interview schedule was used for data collection. The findings revealed that the overall level of awareness of mothers about vaccines and immunization was not satisfactory. When the factors affecting awareness of mothers were assessed, it was found that awareness of mother tended to be affected by many factors. These factors were mainly education of mothers, the number of living children and occupations as well as mass media programs, specially through television

attendance of women for 6th week postnatal checkup in Tanta

This study was performed in order to find out the pattern of attendance of women for the sixth week postnatal checkup and the factors affecting it. A random sample of 120 women among those who accompany their babies to Kohafa and Said MCH centers in Tanta was chosen. The study revealed that the post partum medical checkup visits were limited, and the motive for such visits varied, but about 50% of the women stated that they wanted to have regular check up. The study also revealed that poor attendance was more apparent among women who belong to the high risk group

profile of continuer versus discontinuer users of contraceptives in Ismailia

The aim of this study is to compare between the characteristic and knowledge of continuer and discontinuer users of contraceptive as well as to find out reasons for discontinuation. The study was conducted at the family planning clinic affiliated to El-Shouhadaa health centre in Ismailia. A systematic random sample of 100 continuers 100 discontinuers was included in the study. The result revealed that there is statistical difference between discontinuers and continuers in relation to age, duration of marriage, number of abortion and number of living children, while the difference between the two groups was statistically significant in relation to education, occupation, number of pregnancies. Also the study showed that majority of both groups gave incorrect figure about Egyptian census, and only 8% of discontinuers and 39% of continuers had good knowledge about family planning methods. Moreover less than one third of discontinuers and 53% of continuers knew the adverse effect of large number of children on the family. It was found that medical reasons exceed the non- medical reasons for discontinuation

Temperature stability of newborn infants in incubators during their first 72 hours of life

The study was conducted on 50 newborn infants [25 full-term and 25 premature] admitted immediately after delivery to the intensive care unit at El-Shatby Maternity Hospital. Newborns' temperature and incubators temperature were recorded every hour for the first 6 hours, then every 3 hours for the rest of the 72 hours. The study revealed that the full term infants needed up to 24 hours and the premature needed up to 66 hours to reach the normal temperature and have their temperature be stabilized

Utilization of antenatal care services in Tanta

Proper antenatal care should start as early as the mother conceives and continues throughout pregnancy. Therefore, more effort should be made to make antenatal care used more efficiently. This study aims to find out the pattern of use of antenatal services in Tanta. A simple random sample of 103 pregnant mothers attending the maternal child health centers in Tanta in their last trimester of pregnancy were chosen. An interview schedule was used for data collection. The results show that more than half of the mothers did not know the time of the initial antenatal visit and were unaware of the importance of health supervision during pregnancy. The staff of the clinic played the least role in giving information about antenatal visits and the nurses are unaware about their educational role in the maternity clinic