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Knowledge, attitude and practice on maternal sepsis among mothers in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia

Maternal sepsis is one of the main contributors to maternal mortality worldwide. Malaysia has the least number o f cases associated with maternal sepsis in 2015. However, the number of cases has increase by eight cases in 2017 as stated by the Family Health Development Division Ministry of Health Ma...

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Main Authors: Shamsol Baharin, Fatin Safiqah, Abdul Ghani, Radiah
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spelling my.iium.irep.959712022-03-14T04:23:10Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/95971/ Knowledge, attitude and practice on maternal sepsis among mothers in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia Shamsol Baharin, Fatin Safiqah Abdul Ghani, Radiah R Medicine (General) Maternal sepsis is one of the main contributors to maternal mortality worldwide. Malaysia has the least number o f cases associated with maternal sepsis in 2015. However, the number of cases has increase by eight cases in 2017 as stated by the Family Health Development Division Ministry of Health Malaysia. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitude and practice on maternal sepsis and its associated factors among mothers in Kuantan,Pahang. A cross sectional study design with convenience sampling were applied to 100 respondents a mong mothers based on specific criteria. From the findings, the majority of the mothers in Kuantan has good level of knowledge (52%), whereas the level of attitude was moderate (85%). In addition, the finding shows that th e level of practice among mothers in Kuantan was excellent (76%). Maternal knowledge significantly associated with the age of the mother with p = 0.007. There was a significant correlation between knowledge and attitude ( r = 0.433, p = less than 0.001) and knowledge with practice (r = 0.236, p = 0.018). While attitude and practice (r = 0.194, p = 0.053) showed no significant correlation. This study shows that the mothers in Kuantan, Pahang had good level of knowledge, moderate attitude towards maternal sepsis and excellent practice in preventing maternal sepsis. Continues education on maternal sepsis and other risk factors of maternal mortality should be done especially to young mothers in order to control and reduce the the rates of maternal mortality. Furthermore, this can be a benchmark initiative to achieve the targets in reducing maternal mortality rate in Malaysia as outlined under sustainable development goals 3 (SDG3). UNISZA Publisher 2021 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/95971/7/95971_Knowledge%2C%20attitude%20and%20practice%20on%20maternal%20sepsis.pdf Shamsol Baharin, Fatin Safiqah and Abdul Ghani, Radiah (2021) Knowledge, attitude and practice on maternal sepsis among mothers in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. Asian Journal of Medicine and Biomedicine, 5 (S2). pp. 18-23. E-ISSN 2600-8173 https://journal.unisza.edu.my/ajmb/index.php/ajmb/article/view/456/276 https://doi.org/10.37231/ajmb.2021.5.S2.456
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Shamsol Baharin, Fatin Safiqah
Abdul Ghani, Radiah
Knowledge, attitude and practice on maternal sepsis among mothers in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia
description Maternal sepsis is one of the main contributors to maternal mortality worldwide. Malaysia has the least number o f cases associated with maternal sepsis in 2015. However, the number of cases has increase by eight cases in 2017 as stated by the Family Health Development Division Ministry of Health Malaysia. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitude and practice on maternal sepsis and its associated factors among mothers in Kuantan,Pahang. A cross sectional study design with convenience sampling were applied to 100 respondents a mong mothers based on specific criteria. From the findings, the majority of the mothers in Kuantan has good level of knowledge (52%), whereas the level of attitude was moderate (85%). In addition, the finding shows that th e level of practice among mothers in Kuantan was excellent (76%). Maternal knowledge significantly associated with the age of the mother with p = 0.007. There was a significant correlation between knowledge and attitude ( r = 0.433, p = less than 0.001) and knowledge with practice (r = 0.236, p = 0.018). While attitude and practice (r = 0.194, p = 0.053) showed no significant correlation. This study shows that the mothers in Kuantan, Pahang had good level of knowledge, moderate attitude towards maternal sepsis and excellent practice in preventing maternal sepsis. Continues education on maternal sepsis and other risk factors of maternal mortality should be done especially to young mothers in order to control and reduce the the rates of maternal mortality. Furthermore, this can be a benchmark initiative to achieve the targets in reducing maternal mortality rate in Malaysia as outlined under sustainable development goals 3 (SDG3).
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author Shamsol Baharin, Fatin Safiqah
Abdul Ghani, Radiah
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Abdul Ghani, Radiah
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title Knowledge, attitude and practice on maternal sepsis among mothers in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia
title_short Knowledge, attitude and practice on maternal sepsis among mothers in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia
title_full Knowledge, attitude and practice on maternal sepsis among mothers in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia
title_fullStr Knowledge, attitude and practice on maternal sepsis among mothers in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge, attitude and practice on maternal sepsis among mothers in Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia
title_sort knowledge, attitude and practice on maternal sepsis among mothers in kuantan, pahang, malaysia
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url http://irep.iium.edu.my/95971/7/95971_Knowledge%2C%20attitude%20and%20practice%20on%20maternal%20sepsis.pdf
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