Assessment of Mother’s Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Newborn Care at Public Hospitals in Kirkuk City

Abstract

Objectives: To assess mother’s knowledge and attitude regarding newborn care and find out the relationship
between socio-demographic characteristics with the mother’s knowledge and attitudes in Kirkuk city.
Methodology: Quantitative approach, cross sectional study design has been carried out in Kirkuk public
hospitals from period of 9 August 2016 to 26 May 2018. A non –probability/convenient sampling technique
was applied in the present study. Taken those mothers whose babies age are less than one month in three
public hospitals of Kirkuk city.
The questionnaire was designed and constructed by the researcher to measure the variables underlying the
present study, which consists of three sections, with reliability (0.830) was measured by using Cronbach’s
alpha formula.
Results: The findings demonstrate that overall knowledge mean were 1.49, which mean fair level of
knowledge. Regarding to the attitudes result indicates that 88% of the sample had positive attitude. The
findings indicate significant relationship between knowledge of mother with both variables type of family
at p value and educational level and attendance to antenatal care while the relationship highly significant
relationship received any information on newborn care during this pregnancy, mother age, occupation and
rank of neonate in family. Concerning mother’s attitudes there is a significant relationship between attitude
of mother and received anti tetanus vaccine, rank of neonate in family and occupation.