Urinary tract infection is considered as one of the most frequent health problems in women and pregnant women are more susceptible to it and according to the potential effects on women and the foetus, it is considered very important. Comparing to the Urban population most of the pregnant women belonging to Rural area are still not aware about this. To our knowledge, there are limited studies in Rural areas that addresses this crucial subject. Based on the aforementioned gap, this study was therefore carried out at selected Rural areas of Indore. The current study aims to assess the Knowledge regarding prevention of Urinary Tract Infection in Pregnant Women in selected Rural areas of Indore, Madhya Pradesh. In pre - test conducted among the 40 respondents 32 (80%) have Inadequate knowledge, 8 (20%) of them have moderate knowledge and none of them have adequate knowledge. The post-test was conducted to the same respondents after one week of time. During post-test 27 (67.55) respondents have adequate knowledge, 13 (32.5%) respondents have moderate knowledge and none of them have inadequate knowledge. The average mean score of the knowledge is 8.57 and the average means score of post-test is 21.70. The difference between the pre-test and post-test is 13.13 score. The SD of pre-test is 4.09 and post-test is 4.51. The SD difference is 0.42. The ‘t’ value is 13.6317 and df score is 78.
Urinary Tract Infection, Pregnant Women, Rural areas, Knowledge
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