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Background:High women deaths due to pregnancy, child birth and postpartum complications were the hallmarks of the end of last century especially in Asia. Strategy adopted to achieve this is called birth preparedness whose main aim is to empower the community. This study was planned to determine the frequency of awareness about birth preparedness and the association of birth preparedness with the educational and employment status of the womenMethods:It was a cross sectional study carried out in Pakistan Ordinance FactoriesHospital Wah Cantt. A sample of 385 women was calculated by WHO sample size calculator. The sample was selected by purposive sampling.The study was carried out from September 2015 to March 2016. A structured questionnaire was filled regarding awareness about birth preparedness among women after taking informed consent from each of them. Demographic characteristics were recorded. Birth preparednessawarenesswas assessed by questionnaire containing 10 items. The data was entered and analyzed using SPSS version 19. Pearson correlation was applied to find the association of birth preparedness with the educational and employment status of the women at p-value of 0.05.Results:Inasampleof385women,131(34.1%)wereprepared.Statistically significant p value of 0.000was found between birth preparedness and educational status while a p-value of 0.153was found between birth preparedness and employment status of the women.Conclusion:Thestudyconcludedthatdespitehavingeducationandavailabilityoffreemedicalfacilitythewomenwerenotawareofbirthpreparedness
Dr. Khola Waheed Khan, Musarat Ramzan, Sadia Nadeem. (2019) BIRTH PREPAREDNESS AMONG WOMEN COMING TO POF HOSPITALWAH; A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY, JOURNAL OF AYUB MEDICAL COLLEGE ABBOTTABAD, Volume 31, Issue 3.
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