A Study To Assess The Attitude Towards Vaginal Delivery VS Caesarean Delivery Among Mothers At Primary Health Centre At Guduvancherry, Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu, India

Autor: Jayabharathi B, Bhuvaneswari A, Abirami P, Deenajothy R, Sangeetha Jagdish G
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences. 11:910-914
ISSN: 0975-7538
DOI: 10.26452/ijrps.v11ispl4.4223
Popis: The objective of the study was to assess the number and percentage distribution of demographic variables among mothers and to assess the number and percentage distribution of attitude towards normal vaginal delivery among mothers and also to assess the number and percentage distribution of attitude towards caesarean delivery among mothers. Non experimental design was used. One hundred six mothers were selected for this study. It was conducted at the primary health centre at Guduvancherry, Kanchipuram district, Tamilnadu, India. Three Parts were used. Part.A, Demographic variables, Part .B, Contains attitude towards Vaginal delivery of 15 questions, Part.C, contains attitude towards caesarean delivery among mothers. Contains 15 questions of Study variable among attitude on caesarean delivery and normal delivery and the demographic variable was the age of the mother, type of family, number of children in the family, dietary pattern, monthly income, education, place of living, religion, occupation, type of work, preferences of the mother for the mode of delivery. Scoring key 5 points on the Likert scale was used for this study. The final result of this study shows that most of the mothers 82(77.4%) had a favourable attitude, 24(22.6%) of them had moderately unfavourable attitude, and none of them had an unfavourable attitude towards normal delivery. Most of the mothers 68(64.2%) had Moderately favourable attitude, 38(35.8%) of them had an unfavourable attitude, and none of them had a favourable attitude towards caesarean delivery.
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