TY - JOUR
T1 - Trends over time in the knowledge, attitude and practices of pregnant women related to COVID-19
T2 - A cross-sectional survey from seven low- and middle-income countries
AU - Jessani, Saleem
AU - Saleem, Sarah
AU - Fogleman, Elizabeth
AU - Billah, Sk Masum
AU - Haque, Rashidul
AU - Figueroa, Lester
AU - Lokangaka, Adrien
AU - Tshefu, Antoinette
AU - Goudar, Shivaprasad S.
AU - Kavi, Avinash
AU - Esamai, Fabian
AU - Mwenchanya, Musaku
AU - Chomba, Elwyn
AU - Patel, Archana
AU - Das, Prabir
AU - Mazariegos, Manolo
AU - Bauserman, Melissa
AU - Petri, William A.
AU - Krebs, Nancy F.
AU - Derman, Richard J.
AU - Carlo, Waldemar A.
AU - Bucher, Sherri
AU - Hibberd, Patricia L.
AU - Koso-Thomas, Marion
AU - Bann, Carla M.
AU - McClure, Elizabeth M.
AU - Goldenberg, Robert L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2023/11
Y1 - 2023/11
N2 - Objective: To understand trends in the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of pregnant women related to COVID-19 in seven low- and middle-income countries. Design: Multi-country population-based prospective observational study. Setting: Study sites in Bangladesh, the Demographic Republic of Congo (DRC), Guatemala, India (two sites), Kenya, Pakistan and Zambia. Population: Pregnant women in the Global Network's Maternal and Neonatal Health Registry (MNHR). Methods: Pregnant women enrolled in the MNHR were interviewed to assess their KAP related to COVID-19 from September 2020 through July 2022 across all study sites. Main outcome measures: Trends of COVID-19 KAP were assessed using the Cochran–Armitage test for trend. Results: A total of 52 297 women participated in this study. There were wide inter-country differences in COVID-19-related knowledge. The level of knowledge of women in the DRC was much lower than that of women in the other sites. The ability to name COVID-19 symptoms increased over time in the African sites, whereas no such change was observed in Bangladesh, Belagavi and Guatemala. All sites observed decreasing trends over time in women avoiding antenatal care visits. Conclusions: The knowledge and attitudes of pregnant women related to COVID-19 varied substantially among the Global Network sites over a period of 2 years; however, there was very little change in knowledge related to COVID-19 over time across these sites. The major change observed was that fewer women reported avoiding medical care because of COVID-19 across all sites over time.
AB - Objective: To understand trends in the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of pregnant women related to COVID-19 in seven low- and middle-income countries. Design: Multi-country population-based prospective observational study. Setting: Study sites in Bangladesh, the Demographic Republic of Congo (DRC), Guatemala, India (two sites), Kenya, Pakistan and Zambia. Population: Pregnant women in the Global Network's Maternal and Neonatal Health Registry (MNHR). Methods: Pregnant women enrolled in the MNHR were interviewed to assess their KAP related to COVID-19 from September 2020 through July 2022 across all study sites. Main outcome measures: Trends of COVID-19 KAP were assessed using the Cochran–Armitage test for trend. Results: A total of 52 297 women participated in this study. There were wide inter-country differences in COVID-19-related knowledge. The level of knowledge of women in the DRC was much lower than that of women in the other sites. The ability to name COVID-19 symptoms increased over time in the African sites, whereas no such change was observed in Bangladesh, Belagavi and Guatemala. All sites observed decreasing trends over time in women avoiding antenatal care visits. Conclusions: The knowledge and attitudes of pregnant women related to COVID-19 varied substantially among the Global Network sites over a period of 2 years; however, there was very little change in knowledge related to COVID-19 over time across these sites. The major change observed was that fewer women reported avoiding medical care because of COVID-19 across all sites over time.
KW - COVID-19
KW - KAP
KW - LMICs
KW - pregnant women
KW - trends
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U2 - 10.1111/1471-0528.17630
DO - 10.1111/1471-0528.17630
M3 - Article
C2 - 37581947
AN - SCOPUS:85168083763
SN - 1470-0328
VL - 130
SP - 149
EP - 157
JO - BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
JF - BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
IS - S3
ER -