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To Identify The Knowledge Regarding Causes And Prevention Of Low Birth Weight Babies Among Antenatal Mothers Of Selected Primary Health Centre Kolhapur.

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BACKGROUND: A history of morbidity and mortality is also considered in health record of India, especially the neonatal and infants rate. This rate is used to detect the exact rate of all the complications in neonates and infants. There are different kinds and types of complications in neonates and infants. OBJECTIVES- To identify the knowledge regarding causes and prevention of low birth weight baby among antenatal mothers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Non Experimental descriptive study design with Quantitative descriptive survey approach. Non probability purposive sampling technique used to select sample of 100 Antenatal mothers visiting Primary Health Centre Shiroli, Kolhapur. In this study, independent variable was information booklet and dependent variable was knowledge regarding causes and prevention of among antenatal mothers regarding low birth weight baby. Data collection was done by using structured knowledge questionnaire tool. The selected socio demographic variables are age, education, diet, source of information, monthly income, occupation, type of family. RESULTS: The result shows that knowledge of antenatal mothers visiting Primary Health Centre regarding causes and prevention of low birth weight baby , indicates that the majority of ANC mothers having 60 (60%) had average category and 9 (9%) womens in poor category and only 31 (31%) womens were in good category. The mean was 14.09, median was 13.5, mode was16, standard deviation was 2.44, and range was 13 of knowledge scores of antenatal mothers visiting Primary Health Centre regarding causes and prevention of low birth weight baby.

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