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@article{170849,
        author = {Dr. M. Sreelatha and Mrs. G. Parameswari and Dr.P.Sudha Rani},
        title = {A comparative study to assess the Knowledge on Traditional Harmful Practices in neonatal care among antenatal mothers at selected urban and rural Health centers of Tirupathi},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2024},
        volume = {11},
        number = {7},
        pages = {2412-2419},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=170849},
        abstract = {Background: Birth means the bestowing of some form of life by the nature, to this world. Being born is the purest virtues that can be held by a living being as after that one is exposed to life, where one can breathe, feel, have emotions. Through home based newborn care, successful healthy behavior change in newborn care can be achieved, provided the health care workers equip themselves with a detailed understanding of key traditional practices. The objective of this study was to examine the selected harmful traditional practices related to colostrum, cord care, breast feeding thermal care, ear care and eye care.
Objectives:
•	To assess the knowledge on traditional harmful practices among antenatal mothers of attending rural and urban health centers.
•	To compare the knowledge of antenatal mothers attending between rural and urban health centers on traditional harmful practices in neonatal care.
•	To find out the association between the knowledge scores of antenatal mothers with selected demographic variables.
•	To develop and distribute an information booklet on preventing traditional harmful practices in neonatal care.
Methods: In the present study the researcher adopted non experimental descriptive research design. For this study non-probability Purposive sampling technique was adopted to select the sample based on inclusive and exclusive criteria. The sample consists of 100 antenatal mothers. Among 100, 50 antenatal mothers from rural Health center Chandragiri and 50 antenatal mothers from urban Primary Health center Prakasam Road, Tirupati. Later the investigator collected data from the mothers after obtaining their consent. Data collected from 100 antenatal mothers who are attending rural & urban health center praksham road Tirupati. Each subject given with structured questionnaire and responses noted.
Results: The results shown that the overall knowledge scores obtained by rural health center antenatal mothers mean value was 17.88 and urban health center antenatal mothers mean value was 20.70,urban health center antenatal mothers standard deviation was 5.57 and rural health center antenatal mothers standard deviation was 4.32 the obtained t-value was 2.828**which was highly significant at 0.006 (p< 0.01) level shows that there was high significant difference in knowledge levels of antenatal mothers among rural and urban health center.
Conclusions: Main factors affecting the knowledge score of the mothers about neonatal care were educational status and Antenatal checkup. Knowledge about adequacy of breastfeeding, Immunization at birth, Danger signs, Temperature maintenance and hygiene was less in rural mothers as compared to urban mothers.},
        keywords = {Neonatal care, Antenatal mothers, breastfeeding, Immunization, Infant mortality rate.},
        month = {December},
        }