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Knowledge, attitude and practices: assessing maternal and child health care handbook intervention in Vietnam

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Title
Knowledge, attitude and practices: assessing maternal and child health care handbook intervention in Vietnam
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BMC Public Health, February 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12889-016-2788-4
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Hirotsugu Aiga, Vinh Duc Nguyen, Cuong Dinh Nguyen, Tho Thi Thi Nguyen, Lien Thi Phuong Nguyen

Abstract

Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Handbook, an integrated MCH home-based record, was piloted in four provinces of Vietnam (Dien Bien, Hoa Binh, Thanh Hoa and An Giang). The study is aimed at assessing the changes in pregnant women's behavior towards the frequencies of their antenatal care service utilizations and their subsequent breastfeeding practices up to six months of age, through the MCH Handbook intervention. This is because the levels of pregnant women's knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) towards their antenatal care service utilizations and exclusive breastfeeding practices have been previously neither analyzed nor reported in relation to MCH home-based records in the country. To compare pre-intervention baseline in 2011, post-intervention data were collected in 2013. Structured interviews were conducted with randomly selected 810 mothers of children 6-18 months of age in the four provinces. A focus group discussion among mothers in each of four provinces was conducted. There was no significant difference in pregnant women's knowledge about the need for ≥3 antenatal care visits between pre- and post-interventions. Yet, the proportion of pregnant women who made ≥3 antenatal care visits in post-intervention was significantly higher than in pre-intervention. Thus, MCH Handbook is likely to have contributed to practicing ≥3 antenatal care visits, by changing their attitude. The proportion of mothers who know the need for exclusive breastfeeding necessary during the initial six months significantly increased between pre- and post-interventions. The proportion of those practicing exclusive breastfeeding significantly increased between pre- and post-interventions, too. Thus, MCH Handbook is likely to have contributed to the increase in both knowledge about and practices of exclusive breastfeeding. The results of study imply that MCH Handbook contributed to the increase in pregnant women's practices of ≥3 antenatal care visits and in their knowledge about and practice of exclusive breastfeeding. While there is room for improvement in the level of its data recording, the study confirmed that MCH Handbook plays a catalytic role in ensuring a continuum of maternal, newborn and child care. Note that this study is the first study that attempted to estimate pregnant women's behavioral changes through MCH Handbook intervention in Vietnam.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the 1 <1%
Unknown 300 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 55 18%
Researcher 28 9%
Student > Bachelor 28 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 9%
Lecturer 21 7%
Other 48 16%
Unknown 95 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 84 28%
Medicine and Dentistry 63 21%
Social Sciences 12 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 2%
Arts and Humanities 5 2%
Other 27 9%
Unknown 105 35%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 September 2016.
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#6,012,785
of 22,888,307 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#6,167
of 14,923 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#99,268
of 400,431 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#91
of 242 outputs
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