Knowledge and Attitude of Pregnant Women towards Management of Pregnancy-induced Hypertension in Southwest Nigeria

Fadare, R. I. and Akpor, O. A. and Oziegbe, O. B. Knowledge and Attitude of Pregnant Women towards Management of Pregnancy-induced Hypertension in Southwest Nigeria. ournal of Advances in Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences. ISSN 2394-1111

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Abstract

The study explores the knowledge and attitude of pregn ant women towards the management of pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH). It was a descri ptive study, sampling technique was purposive and data was collected using a self-administer ed structure questionnaire. A sample of two hundred pregnant women was selected and data was a nalysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Almost half of the participants we re between the ages of 21 to 30 years (49.0%), with highest level of education as tertiary ( 58.0%) and 26.5% are currently pregnant for an average of 21 to 29 weeks. Knowledge and attitudes a ssessment indicated a high proportion of awareness (82.0%), hospital’s education (65.5%), and the majority (58.0%) believed that anybody can have pregnancy induced hypertension and (75.5%) r elate the possible causes to eating too much salt, stress (57.5%) and over weight (49.5%). Mo st of the participants prefer to visit

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