Perception and Utilization of Kangaroo Mother Care among Nursing Mothers Attending Post-Natal Clinic in Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Ogun State
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https://doi.org/10.51699/ijhsms.v2i2.1149Keywords:
Knowledge, Perception, Kangaroo mother care, Roles, Healthcare providers, Secondary health facilitiesAbstract
Background: Despite improvements in child survival in the past four decades, an estimated 6.3 million children under the age of five die each year, and more than 40% of these deaths occur in the neonatal period. Interventions to reduce neonatal mortality are needed. Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is one such life-saving intervention; however, it has not yet been fully integrated into health systems around the world. Utilizing a conceptual framework for integration of targeted health interventions into health systems, we hypothesize that caregivers play a critical role in the adoption, diffusion, and assimilation of KMC. The objective of this research was to investigate the perception and utilization of kangaroo mother care among nursing mothers attending post-natal clinic in Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Ogun State.
A cross sectional, descriptive and inferential study design was used to determine the perception and utilization of kangaroo mother care among nursing mothers attending post-natal clinic in Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Ogun State. Target population were nursing mothers attending post-natal clinic in Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Ogun State. The convenience sampling technique was used to select 154 respondents attending the antenatal clinic at a secondary healthcare facility. Descriptive such as frequency, table and percentages were used, also inferential statistics such as the chi-square was also use to determine the relationship between some selected independent and dependents variable at p-less than.
The result showed that there was statistically significant relationship between knowledge and perception of nursing mothers toward the utilization of kangaroo mother care. The result from the findings also showed that mothers have good knowledge and perception towards kangaroo mothers care.
The study therefore recommended among others, the need for health care providers to be more responsive in raising awareness of Kangaroo mother care among mothers, which could impact on the perceptions of the mothers positively.
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