Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Towards Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of Human Immune Deficiency Virus Among Male Partner of Pregnant Women Attending in Shegaw Motta Primary Hospital. Institutional Based Crosectional Study
Background: The transmission of HIV AIDS from mother to child is high still now. One of the factors may be due to the low level of the knowledge; attitude and practice of male partners for the HIV infected pregnant mothers. Therefore, the study was aimed to assess the level of knowledge, attitude and practice of male partners of pregnant women, so that, level of knowledge, attitude and practice of male partners of pregnant women would be known.
However, little research is done to assess knowledge, attitude and practice toward MTCT/PMTCT program where these studies are limited in their scope, which focus only on pregnant mothers and there is a gap in examining knowledge and attitude of male partners. Assessing the knowledge, attitudes and practice of male partner of pregnant women at ANC and PMTCT program is vital for interventions on men.
Objective: To assess knowledge, attitude and practice towards prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV among male partner of pregnant women attending in Shegaw Motta Primary Hospital East Gojjam zone, Amahra Ethiopia in 2018.
Results: From the total population 46.2% of the respondents had good knowledge. But, only 16.3 the respondents had poor knowledge. 55.6% of the respondents had positive attitude and 44.4% had negative attitude towards MTCT and PMTCT. 81.5% of the respondents had low level of involvement and 18. 5% of the respondents had high level of involvement towards MTCT and PMTCT
Conclusion: Majority of the respondents had good knowledge and positive attitude towards MTCT and PMTCT. But majority of the respondents had low level involvement towards MTCT and PMTCT.
Posted 17 Sep, 2020
Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Towards Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of Human Immune Deficiency Virus Among Male Partner of Pregnant Women Attending in Shegaw Motta Primary Hospital. Institutional Based Crosectional Study
Posted 17 Sep, 2020
Background: The transmission of HIV AIDS from mother to child is high still now. One of the factors may be due to the low level of the knowledge; attitude and practice of male partners for the HIV infected pregnant mothers. Therefore, the study was aimed to assess the level of knowledge, attitude and practice of male partners of pregnant women, so that, level of knowledge, attitude and practice of male partners of pregnant women would be known.
However, little research is done to assess knowledge, attitude and practice toward MTCT/PMTCT program where these studies are limited in their scope, which focus only on pregnant mothers and there is a gap in examining knowledge and attitude of male partners. Assessing the knowledge, attitudes and practice of male partner of pregnant women at ANC and PMTCT program is vital for interventions on men.
Objective: To assess knowledge, attitude and practice towards prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV among male partner of pregnant women attending in Shegaw Motta Primary Hospital East Gojjam zone, Amahra Ethiopia in 2018.
Results: From the total population 46.2% of the respondents had good knowledge. But, only 16.3 the respondents had poor knowledge. 55.6% of the respondents had positive attitude and 44.4% had negative attitude towards MTCT and PMTCT. 81.5% of the respondents had low level of involvement and 18. 5% of the respondents had high level of involvement towards MTCT and PMTCT
Conclusion: Majority of the respondents had good knowledge and positive attitude towards MTCT and PMTCT. But majority of the respondents had low level involvement towards MTCT and PMTCT.