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Abstract
Aim of the study was to assess pregnant women’s knowledge and practices regarding care after cervical cerclage. Design: Descriptive research. Setting: The study was conducted at outpatient clinics, in patient unit and postoperative room of obstetrics department at Benha University and Educational Hospitals. Sampling: A purposive sample of (80) pregnant women undergoing cervical cerclage. Three tools of data collection utilized. A Structured interviewing questionnaire schedule includes two parts: The Socio-demographic characteristics of the study sample and the obstetrics history. knowledge assessment sheet. Reported Practice Sheet. Follow- up sheet. Results: More than half aged from 20-30years with mean age 29.16±4.97 years. More than two thirds lived in rural area and exactly tow third had secondary education. More than half were housewife. Majority of the study pregnant women had incorrect and poor knowledge about cervical cerclage, types, indication, complication and contraindication. Majority of studied pregnant women were unsatisfactory regarding total practices after cerclage as positioning (lying on lateral side), improper diet and perineal care, while about tow third of them have not taken drugs regularly and majority of them didn’t attending visits according to follow up schedule. More than half hadn’t done improper sexual relation and psychological health practices such as relaxation. There was statistically significance relation between studied pregnant women’s total knowledge and age as p-value (≤ 0.05). while there was a highly statistically relation (p ≥ 0.001) between studied pregnant women’s total knowledge and education, occupation. There was no statistically significance relation between studied pregnant women’s total knowledge and residence. There was statistically significance relation between studied pregnant women’s total reported practices and mother outcome (p ≤ 0.05). while there was a highly statistically relation (p ≤ 0.001) between studied pregnant women’s total reported practices and fetal outcome. There was a strong positive statistically correlation between studied pregnant women’s total knowledge and total reported practices. Conclusion: More than half of studied pregnant women had poor knowledge about cervical cerclage and three quarter of studied pregnant women had unsatisfactory regarding total reported practices. There was a strong positive statistically correlation between studied pregnant women’s total knowledge and total reported practices Recommendation: Developing Periodic educational programs that promotes women’s knowledge and practices toward cervical cerclage.