THE EFFECTIVENESS OF HEALTH AWARENESS PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE REGARDING PREVENTION OF URINARY TRACT INFECTION AMONG ANTENATAL WOMEN IN GOVT. DOON MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL

Background: Pregnancy is a most beautiful journey filled with ups and downs, and its only natural to feel overwhelmed at times. While being pregnant can be the most beautiful experience for women, it brings along a whole load of worries as well such as medications, exercises and personal hygiene. In which Urinary tract infection is frequently experienced during pregnancy and it is associated with adverse maternal, fetal and neonatal effects. UTI is common cause of serious infection in pregnant women. In pregnancy UTI cause changes in the urinary tract, that makes women likely to get infection. This study focused on the enhancement ofknowledge and practice regarding prevention of UTI among antenatal women during pregnancy.

Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of health awareness program on knowledge and practice regarding prevention of UTI during pregnancy among antenatal women.

Material and Methods: Pre-experimental research design was used in the study.Convenient sampling technique was used to collect to data from antenatal women of government doon medical college and hospital, the sample size was 60.

Result: There was statistically significance effect was seen with mean value and SD of knowledge (17.58 ± 1.825) and practice (7.70 ± 1.183) with t value of knowledge (29.382) and practice (15.413) at p value 0.001.It was found significant.

Conclusion: This study concluded that health awareness programme on knowledge andpractice regarding prevention of urinary tract infection among antenatal women was effective.