Knowledge Of Obstetrics Danger Sign And Associated Factors Among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care At Health Facilities In Tenta Woredasouth Wollo Ethiopia 2019a Cross Sectional Study.

BACKGROUND: - Preventable maternal mortality and morbidity remain challenging in many countriesrnlike Ethiopia. Most cause of maternal deaths were preventable and the effect of three delays, from whichrnone of the delay is delay in seek care. Poor knowledge about danger sign in pregnancy was a majorrncontributor to delay in seeking obstetric care, this contributes to high maternal morbidity and mortalityrnin a developing country like Ethiopia. rn OBJECTIVES: - Assessment of Knowledge on obstetric danger signs and associated factors amongrnpregnant women attending antenatal care at health facilities in Tenta Woreda, north Ethiopia. rnMETHODS: - Institution based cross-sectional study was employed and all health facilities in thernWoreda were included in the study. The study subjects were selected using systematic sampling methodrnand 293 women was proportionally allocated to respective health facilities. The tool had three parts,rnwhich is sociodemographic part, reproductive part and knowledge based. The data were collected byrninterviewed method. The data was entered using epi data (version 4.2) and export to SPSS version 25.00rnfor clearing and analysis and Logistic regression analyses were employed to identify factors associatedrnwith knowledge of obstetric danger signs. Using 95% CI variables with a p-value

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