KNOWLEDGE OF MOTHERS CONCERNING POST PARTUM HEMORRHAGE

Abstract

Descriptive study was conducted to identify the knowledge of mothers about post partum hemorrhage (P P H). A purposive sample of one hundred women who admitted at ALELWYIA Maternity Hospital for period from 1st of Feb. to end of may2006 data were collected through interviews of study sample questionnaire format was designed that A consisted of three part: demographic variable .reproductive variable and variable related to Knowledge of mothers, descriptive and inferential statistical procedures where used to analyze the data.The result of the study revered that the highest percentage (72%) of mothers their age where ranged between (21-25) years and the highest percentage (60%) of them graduated from primary school and less. Most of mothers where house wives (78%) mothers Knowledge about (P P H) were unsatisfied for Knowledge also their were significant relationship between Knowledge of mothers and some variable such as gravidity and type of delivery their for it’s recommended that