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Reeba Baby
Riji P.T
Sherin Johnson
Sherin Johnson
Sherin Thomas
Sneha Thankachan
Soumya A.U
Limi .M. Mathai
Contraception has been a simple and most important intervention to reduce burden of unwanted pregnancy and promote healthy living among young women. Hence the investigators intended to conduct a study to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding contraceptive devices among the primiparous mothers attending gynaec OPD at selected hospital, Thrissur. The objectives of the study were, to assess the le vel of knowledge regarding contraceptive devices among the primiparous mothers, to assess the level of attitude regarding contraceptive devices among primiparous mothers, to associate the level of knowledge regarding contraceptive devices among primiparous mothers with their selected demographic variables, to associate the level of attitude regarding contraceptive devices among primiparous mothers with their selected demographic variables and to find out the correlation between knowledge and attitude regard ing contraceptive devices among primiparous mothers. A descriptive cross sectional research design was used to conduct the study. A total of 50 primiparous mothers were selected using purposive sampling method. The data was collected using structured knowl edge questionnaire and three point modified likert scale. The tool was administered among 50 samples and the knowledge and attitude regarding contraceptive devices were assessed. The findings revealed that 14% had good knowledge, 64% had average knowledge, 20% had poor knowledge and 2% had very poor knowledge and attitude scale revealed that 84% had favorable attitude and 16% had unfavorable attitude. It was found that there is significant association between knowledge and exposure to educational programmes and attitude to religion.
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