Nanjing Drum Tower District knowledge about birth defects in pregnant women investigation and analysis of.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 14 Nanjing Drum Tower District knowledge about birth defects in pregnant women investigation and analysis of Of: Xu Biyun, Cui Xiaoning, Yao Jing, Qian Hui, Hu Yali [Abstract] Objective: To understand the Nanjing Drum Tower area of birth defects in pregnant women, the mastery of knowledge and their attitudes and needs for community-based primary prevention of birth defects to provide work plans. METHODS: A questionnaire approach to the 2008 In March to July 2009 in Nanjing Drum Tower District in perinatal care of pregnant women to investigate the small card. Results: A total of 3 858 copies of questionnaires, of which 3 777 valid questionnaires, the effective rate was 97.90%. The results show that the prevention of birth defects in pregnant women, awareness rate 7.33% 99.05%. In addition to the two, the awareness of other items are increased with the increased education level (P lt;0.05) .96.64% of respondents want to be on eugenics gifted education knowledge, 88.03% information about eugenic knowledge, the acquisition mainly through newspapers, magazines, books. Conclusion: Pregnant women generally known to prevent birth defects of the basic knowledge, but not comprehensive; majority of pregnant women have access to excellent health knowledge needs ; basic maternal and child health workers, pregnant women need to expand the breadth and depth of health education. [Keywords:] community; prevent birth defects of knowledge; pregnant women; health education [Abstract] Objective: To study the current status of the knowledge, attitude and demands of birth defect prevention among the pregnant women in Gulou district of Nanjing city in order to provide the support for the community based first level prevention of the birth defect. Methods : A questionnaire survey was made among the pregnant women who had report cards of perinatal health during March 2008 to July 2009. Results: 3 858 questionnaires were collected and the valid ones were