ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE,ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF PREGNANT WOMEN TOWARD ANTENATAL CARE IN AGENA TOWN,GURAGE ZONE,SNNPR,ETHIOPIA,2020

Abstract

BACKGROUND Antenatal care is a general and medical care given to pregnant women during pregnancy. The primary aim of antenatal care is to achieve a healthy mother and a healthy baby at the end of pregnancy. The objectives of antenatal care are to promote, protect and maintain the health of the mother during pregnancy. The service include dietary and life style advice, examination of weig ht gain and blood pressure, and addressing any other problems of pregnancy. NC can play a role in identifying danger sign or predicting complications during delivery by screening for risk factors and arranging for appropriate delivery car e OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to assess knowledge, attitude and practice of pregnant women toward antenatal care in Agena town, Gurage zone, SNNPR, 2020METHOD AND MATERIALS: Descriptive, cross-sectional based study was conducted in pregnant women that are selected by convenient sampling technique in 81 pregnant women attending agena health center during the study from 16-30/12/2020 And the data were analyised using spss computer application the result was presented by text ,table and figures RESULT From study subjects 40(49.9%) knows about ANC and the rest 41(49.2%) don‟t know about ANC. CONCLUSSION Majority of the respondents are gurage in ethnicity and protestant in religion. Majority of respondents have knowledge on ANC and majority of them get from health extension workers.From those who have no knowledge about ANC majority of them did not use the service, this shows that knowledge affects utilization of the service because they don‟t know the benefit of ANC utilization