A STUDY TO ASSESS THE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING MATERNAL SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND THEIR UTILIZATION AMONG ANTENATAL MOTHERS IN SELECTED RURAL AREA OF JAIPUR RAJASTHAN

Author Name: 1. Mr. Kailash Chand Atal, 2. Dr. Minaxi Vyas, 3. Mrs. Priti Nair

Volume/Issue: 04/11

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://doi-ds.org/doilink/04.2024-54197633/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. M.Sc. Nursing Final Year, Govt College of Nursing, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
2. HOD, Obstetrics and Gynaecological Nursing Department, Govt. College of Nursing, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
3. Lecturer, Obstetrics and Gynaecological Nursing Department, Govt. College of Nursing, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION: Maternal health services play a crucial role in ensuring the well-being of both mothers and babies during the maternity period. In rural areas like Jaipur, Rajasthan, access to and utilization of government-provided maternal services are essential for promoting safe pregnancies and deliveries. This study aims to assess the knowledge and utilization of maternal services among antenatal mothers in a selected rural community in Jaipur. The WHO suggests that skilled care before, during and after childbirth can save the lives of women and newborn babies. Maternal mortality has decreased worldwide by about 44% between 1990 and 2015. The earlier estimates by WHO showed that 536000 women died in 2005 as a result of complications of pregnancy and childbirth, and 400 mothers died for every 100000 live births. According to ‘World Health Statistics’ by WHO (2008) the maternal mortality was nine in developed countries, 450 in developing countries and 900 in 2 sub- Saharan Africa. This shows that 99% of the women who died in pregnancy and childbirth were from developing countries. More than half of these deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa and about a third in southern Asia. Thus, reduction of maternal mortality is one of the major challenges to improve the overall quality of life (Seth 2009). Therefore, this is great challenge for developing countries and for countries like India. METHOD: The research has quantitative non - experimental descriptive research approach where 60 Antenatal mothers were selected as sample by Non-Probability Convenient Sampling technique. Pilot study was conducted at UPHC HARMADA SIKAR ROAD JAIPUR. The Main study was conducted at PHC OF MANPURA MACHERI, JAIPUR. A questionaries and checklists was used for data collection in the study. The conceptual framework for the present study was based on General system theory.The data obtained from the study subjects were analyzed and interpreted in terms of the objectives and hypothesis of the study. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis at 95% of confidential interval(CI).RESULTS: Level of knowledge of antenatal mothers showed that16.7% of the antenatal mothers had inadequate knowledge, 63.3% had moderate adequate knowledge and 20 % of the antenatal mothers had adequate knowledge regarding maternal services. and Utilization of antenatal mothers showed that 0 % of the antenatal mothers had inadequate Utilization, 65 % had Moderately adequate Utilization and 35 % of the antenatal mothers had adequate Utilization towards jssy, pmmvy, pmsma of maternal services. The correlation coefficient computed between the overall mean knowledge and overall mean attitude of antenatal mothers as r=0.841 (S) suggests a highly positive correlation between knowledge and Utilization significant at p>0.05 level. There was a significant association between the level of knowledge and selected demographic variables like educational of mother, education of husband, age, occupation, religion, family income, no of children of the participants. Same way there was a significant association between the utilization and selected demographic variables like educational of mother, education of husband, and occupation of the participants. CONCLUSION: The present study was undertaken “a study to assess the knowledge regarding maternal services provided by the government and their utilization among antenatal mothers in selected rural area of Jaipur raj.”The following conclusions were drawn on the basis of the findings of the study.The majority of women have moderate knowledge of maternal services and their utilization provided by the government among antenatal mothers.The findings show the very strong positive correlation between knowledge and utilization of maternal services provided by the government among antenatal mothers. Means as the knowledge increases the utilization also increases

Key words: Maternal Services, PMMVY, PMSMA, JSSY, Antenatal Mothers Utilization, Knowledge.