Assessment of knowledge related to birth spacing among Saudi mothers in Riyadh city: part I

ABSTRACT

The objectives of the study are to identify the birth spacing knowledge levels among Saudi mothers in the three selected primary health care centres; and determine the correlation between the knowledge scores and certain demographic and ubstetrical variables .One-hundred fifty Saudi pregnant women participated in the study. Data was collected through the interview method. The instrument was tested for face validity and reliability. Data was analyzed manually. The result reflects that the majority of Saudi mothers had poor birth spacing knowledge scores. There is no significant difference in knowledge scores among the three centres. Birth spacing knowledge scores are directly related with the level of education and No. of low birth weight babies. But no relation between spacing knowledge scores and number of pregnancies deliveries living children and abortions