Assessment of knowledge, attitudes and practices of expectant mothers in relation to antenatal care in Assiut governorate

This study aims to assess knowledge, attitudes and practice. of expectant mothers in relation to ante-natal care in Assiut and to find out factors affecting their knowledge. Attitudes and practices. The present study was carried out in the ante-natal clinic at Assiut General Hospital and three Maternal and Child Health Centers in Assiut. Fifty women were selected from each of the previously mentioned settings. A specially designed interview sheet was used to collect the necessary data. It was consisted of four parts. The first part included questions related to individual features of women, the second part included questions related to their family features, the third part concerned with previous obstetrical history of women and their acceptance of pregnancy and the fourth part included questions related to knowledge attitudes and practices of expectant mother in relation to ante-natal care. Th. findings of the present study revealed that one quarter of the study sample [25.5%] lacked basic and essential knowledge about ante-natal care, most of older women [88.2%] were more likely to have poor knowledge in relation to ante-natal care, the higher educated women [66.7%] were more likely to have good knowledge about ante-natal care compared to 33.5% of lower educated women. It was also observed that the majority of working women [90%] were more likely to have good ante-natal care knowledge compared to housewives [10%]. Most of the primigravida women [88.2%] were more likely to have poor knowledge in relation to ante-natal care compared to 11.8% of women whose gravidity was less than 5

Elaboracion y aplicacion de los instrumentos para evaluar la calidad de la atencion ofrecida por la enfermera en el subprograma prenatal en la regional 3 Bogota D.E / Elaboration and aplication of tools for evaluation the quality of the care gived by the nurse in the prenatal subprogram in regional # 3 Bogota D.E

Para establecer los criterios de evaluacion de la calidad del cuidado de enfermeria en el subprograma de atencion prenatal de la Regional #3 del Distrito Especial de Bogota, se disenaron, probaron y aplicaron 2 instrumentos de evaluacion: 1.- observacion del desempeno de las actividades de la enfermera y 2.- entrevista a la enfermera. El primero incluye: a.- datos basicos sobre actividades de apoyo, valoracion de la gestante, diagnostico de enfermeria, planeacion y evaluacion del cuidado. El segundo incluye datos para identificar a la enfermera objeto de la evaluacion; actividades de promocion del programa, seguimiento a pacientes que no acuden a los controles y a pacientes de alto riesgo y finalmente, infraestructura del programa. Se establecio la validez de los instrumentos de evaluacion y se sugieren algunas modificaciones menores para posterior utilizacion. La evaluacion de la calidad del cuidado arrojo informacion valiosa relativa al cumplimiento de las normas establecidas por el ministerio de salud para el programa, desarrollo de la historia clinica, infraestructura institucional y actividades de la enfermera. Se describen los resultados de la evaluacion...