• Catherine Snigdha Bala

Pregnancy and childbirth are essential for existence of the entire human race but maternal death is a twofold misfortune affecting both the mother and child. “Safe Motherhood Initiative” enlisted four pillars of safe motherhood but even after the launch of such and other initiatives maternal, infant and under 5 mortalities remained unacceptable. Assessing the level of awareness about safe motherhood practices among pregnant women thus becomes necessary to plan interventions to further empower them to avail these services. To assess the knowledge status of safe mother hood among mothers in Bangladesh. To find out practices of safe mother hood performed during pregnancy among mothers in Bangladesh. To provide policy recommendations for safe mother hood in Bangladesh. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 400 pregnant women. Sociodemographic data and details of knowledge and behaviour about safe motherhood practices were collected using a predesigned pretested questionnaire. Data was analysed using SPSS software. Participants’ mean age was 23.9 years. 84% of pregnant women had average knowledge while 68.4% had poor behaviour regarding Safe Motherhood Practices. Statistically significant associations were observed between knowledge and education level, employment status and socio-economic class, between behaviour and age at the time of marriage of the women and also between knowledge and behaviour (p-value <0.05). Among pregnant women knowledge about Safe Motherhood Practices was average and behaviour was poor. There is a necessity to increase the knowledge which will in turn bring about a good behaviour and empower women to use the safe motherhood services.

Behaviour, knowledge, pregnant, safe motherhood, awareness, nursing

"Study on the Awareness among Mothers about Safe Motherhood", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 12, page no.h67-h85, December-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2312710.pdf

"Study on the Awareness among Mothers about Safe Motherhood", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 12, page no. pph67-h85, December-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2312710.pdf