Knowledge and practice on prevention of urinary tract infection among antenatal mothers

Mrs. Vidya.C.S; Mrs. Malathi.D

Volume : VIII, Issue : I, January - 2019

Knowledge and practice on prevention of urinary tract infection among antenatal mothers

Mrs. Vidya. C. S, Mrs. Malathi. D

Abstract :

A descriptive study was conducted to assess the knowledge and practice on prevention of urinary tract infection among antenatal mother. Descriptive design was used as research design. Purposive sampling technique was adopted and selected 500 antenatal mothers. The tool used for data collection consisted of socio-personal proforma, obstetrical data, semi structured questionnaire and self-reported practice checklist. Result showed that more than half 69.6% of subjects had good knowledge, and only 2.6% of subjects had poor knowledge. According to practice results showed that majority of subjects 96.2% had average practice and only 3.8% of subjects had poor practice. There is highly significant association between knowledge on prevention of urinary tract infection with age and source of information at p<0.001 as well as the practice on prevention of urinary tract infection with education and source of information at p<0.001 which is determined by Kruskal Walli�s test. There was a weak positive correlation (r=+0.745) between knowledge and practice on prevention of urinary tract infection, significant at p<0.001 which determined by Spearman�s Rank correlation co-efficient.