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Abstract
Birth preparedness and complication readiness (BP/CR), a key intervention to promote service utilization, includes having a plan to identify a skilled birth attendant and a health facility preferred by the pregnant woman, saving money, arranging transport and identifying a compatible blood donor during pregnancy. The ability of mothers and families to recognize the danger signs during the continuum of pregnancy-delivery-postpartum periods enhances the BP/CR level and assists the family in making appropriate decisions for seeking skilled care, if needed. Birth preparedness and complication readiness is a strategy that has been globally endorsed as an essential component of safe motherhood programs to reduce delays for care to promote the timely use of skilled maternal and neonatal care. The aim of this study is to assess birth preparedness and complication readiness among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at Menyet El-Nasr Central Hospital. A descriptive cross sectional study was followed in this study. A purposive sample of 197 women who were pregnant at the second and third trimester with normal pregnancy condition were included in the study. Tools were used for data collection: Tool I: four parts:- Part I: socio-demographic characteristics Part II: obstetric data, Part III: Semi-structure questionnaire was used to assess knowledge of woman about danger signs during pregnancy, labor, and postpartum. It was adapted from Idowu et al., (2015). Part IV: Semi-structure questionnaire was used to assess knowledge of pregnant woman about birth preparedness and complication readiness. It was adapted from Nkwocha et al.,( 2017). Tool II: Semi-structure questionnaire was used to assess practice of pregnant woman toward birth preparedness and complication readiness. It was adopted from Tobin et al., (2018). Tool III: Semi-structure questionnaire was used to assess attitude of pregnant woman toward birth preparedness and complication readiness. It was adopted from Mbonu, Ogonna, (2018) The results of the study can be summarized in to the following: • The majority of women had poor knowledge about danger signs during pregnancy, labor, and post-partum (83.8%). • Less than half of the women had good knowledge level about birth preparedness and complication readiness (35.0%). • Three quarters were prepared level of practice about birth preparedness and complication readiness (78.2%). • The most of studied women had positive attitude about birth preparedness and complication readiness (98.5%). • There were statistical significant relation between knowledge, practice and attitude and differed by age, education, occupation, family income, number of children, media, distance from nearby health center, gravidity, parity, still birth number, abortions number, presence of obstetric or neonatal complications, frequency of antenatal visits, male partner accompanying ANC, experienced any health problems during pregnancy, and decision maker about woman’s health care. • There was positive, significant, moderate correlation between practice & knowledge scores, attitude & knowledge scores and practice & attitude scores. Conclusions The study concluded that the poor knowledge danger signs during pregnancy, labor and postpartum were prevalent among studied women. Also, there was slightly more than one third of the studied women had good knowledge about birth preparedness and complication readiness. There was positive, significant, moderate correlation between practice & knowledge scores, attitude & knowledge scores and practice & attitude scores. Recommendations It is recommended to increase the public awareness about the importance of birth preparedness and complication readiness through utilization of mass media (radio and TV). Also, prepare queue card (mother and baby card), that have information about danger signs and birth preparedness, counsel and give the card to remained. More efforts are needed to conduct qualitative studied to explore the main reason for their poor preparedness of pregnant women for birth and in cases of obstetric complications in order to bring significant changes in the reduction of maternal and neonatal deaths.