A Study on Awareness of Danger Signs in Pregnancy in Selected Hospitals of Bangladesh

Abstract

Complications during pregnancy are of worldwide concern. Therefore, this study was aimed to assess womens’ awareness of danger signs of complications and to find out prevalence of current pregnancy complications. It was a survey based study where 148 pregnant women from different hospitals of Bangladesh were interviewed with a questionnaire. All the respondents were in third trimester. From the study 6.08% respondents were found with various complications. A satisfactory level (93.24%) of respondents was found who knew at least one of the warning signs and 6.67% who did not know about any of the warning signs. In addition, most (94.60%) of the respondents knew about water break as a warning sign and only 0.68% knew about the sepsis and abnormal lie. Furthermore, among the respondents 2.70% had no idea about any of the danger sign and 97.30% of the respondents had idea about at least one of the complications. Most (72.97%) of the respondents knew about vomiting as an indicative danger and only 2.03% believed that drainage of liquor could be an indicative of danger. Apparently, 54.73% respondents replied that pineapple was an abortifacient food and only 2.70% knew about fish containing mercury. In case of medication 11.49% respondents were prescribed category D drug where most of the respondents were prescribed in between category A to C. To conclude it can be said that it is important to increase the awareness level among the women and therefore further research work should be carried out with more number of respondents.