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Masters Thesis | Nursing | India | Volume 12 Issue 7, July 2023 | Rating: 5 / 10
A Study to Assess Knowledge, Attitude and Perceived Barrier in Use of PPIUCD among Postnatal Women in Selected Hospitals of West Bengal
Priya Mondal
Abstract: As the population of our nation is exploding, Contraception is the need of the hour. Although there are so many contraceptive methods available, an efficacious, long term, cost effective method is desirable in a low resource country like ours. Also, the postpartum period is very important as women are very receptive for PPIUCD insertion. This study aims to assess the knowledge, attitude and perceived barrier in use of PPIUCD. Non experimental quantitative research approach and descriptive survey research design was used. The setting of the study was in Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital and Lalbagh Sub Divisional hospital in Murshidabad. Data was collected by using non-probability purposive sampling technique on 152 postnatal women. Among 152 postnatal women 63.2% had poor knowledge and 5.9% had excellent knowledge regarding PPIUCD. 70.4% of the postnatal women had moderate favourable attitude and 13.8% postnatal women had unfavourable attitude towards PPIUCD. 75% of the postnatal women had self related barrier, 18.4 % of the postnatal women had husband related barrier. The mean knowledge score was 8.62 and mean attitude score was 48.16. Calculated ?r? value between knowledge and attitude was 0.66 which shown weakly positive relation between knowledge and attitude of postnatal women regarding PPIUCD.
Keywords: PPIUCD, contraceptive methods
Edition: Volume 12 Issue 7, July 2023,
Pages: 1993 - 1999