Assessment of Knowledge and Practices of Pregnant Women Toward Antenatal Care Services at Primary Health Care Centers in AL Hila-City Skel Noor Al-Huda S.1,*, Khaleel Muna A.2 1MSc. Student, Maternity and Child Health Department, College of Nursing, University of Babylon, Hilla City, Iraq 2Professor, Community Health Nursing Department, College of Nursing, University of Babylon, Hilla City, Iraq *Corresponding Author: Noor Al-Huda, College of Nursing, University of Babylon, Hilla City, Iraq
Online published on 23 December, 2019. Abstract Today, it is well-known that knowledge and practices of pregnant mothers about prenatal care are essential for the health of women and fetuses and also through pregnancy, breastfeeding and childbirth. Interventions, education and information, for pregnant mothers is a catalytic process. A descriptive, cross-sectional study design at (10) PHC centers selected randomly from total (48) PHC centers affiliated to first and second health care sector in Al Hilla City from 30/July/2018 to 29/July/2019. A constructed questionnaire was prepared and adopted by the researcher direct (face to face) interview to meet the objectives of the study, it contains: socio-demographic data, reproductive history of the sample, knowledge of pregnant women about importance of antenatal care services and practices of pregnant women toward antenatal care services. Findings of the study revealed that the mean overall knowledge score of the study participants for all domain (2.08) which indicated that the overall knowledge of mothers regarding antenatal care was fair, and the current study also showed that the mean overall practices score of the study responses for all domain (1.93) which indicated that the overall practices of mothers regarding antenatal care was fair. Top Keywords Antenatal care, knowledge, practices, pregnant women. Top |