ATTITUDES OF WOMEN IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA FOR PRENATAL TESTING AS A PREVENTIVE PUBLIC HEALTH PROCEDURE
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN EDUCATION METHODOLOGY - Year 2014, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
Prenatal screening and diagnostic tests are associated with great anticipation, many questions, and different attitudes for the condition of the fetus, as well as providing important information about the health and condition of the future baby. The study included 507 respondents. The aim of the research is to determine the attitudes of Macedonian women for prenatal testing as preventive public health procedures, depending on their demographic characteristics. The research is an analytical sectional study whose results were collected by a questionnaire that was made for the purposes of the study, and included women-mothers with at least one pregnancy. To follow the observation about attitudes toward prenatal screening and diagnostic procedures, a descriptive analysis of the total number of points was made, where we found that surveyed women in Macedonia don`t have precisely built views ( opinions ) regarding prenatal screening and diagnostic procedures . The higher level of attitudes towards prenatal screening and diagnostic procedures associated with respondents of age group under 49 years, who are residing in the city, with high educational level, married, nationality Macedonians, have health insurance, those who have children with developmental disabilities and women with one to two pregnancies. But although there are differences in demographic characteristics, respondents in 67.1 % are unanimous in terms of attitude that prenatal screening tests should be used by all pregnant women. For this view is unspecified are 25.2%, 7.7 % of the respondents disagree .
Authors and Affiliations
Roberta Mitrevska, Rozalinda Isjanovska
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP654709
- DOI 10.24297/ijrem.v5i3.3899
- Views 109
- Downloads 0
Challenges of curriculum integration at primary school: the case of Social Studies at primary school
This quantitative study sought to explore the challenges that primary school teachers experience in teaching Social Studies as an integrated subject. Data for the study was gathered using a questionnaire sent to 178 prac...
GRADUATE FOLIO PRESENTATIONS IN THE CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS
This paper considers the issues in advising, supervising and presenting graduate level work in the creative and performing arts in general, and music performance in particular. It outlines the qualities needed in the men...
Arterial stiffness evaluation by pulse wave velocity in hypertension and diabetes mellitus subjects
 Background: Arterial stiffness is an independent predictor for vascular diseases. Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (CFPWV) is a reliable index of arterial stiffness. In the present study, we investigated the possibl...
EFFECTIVENESS OF MULTIMEDIA APPROACH IN TEACHING OF ARTS AT SECONDARY STAGE
Teaching is an art and a skill to be learnt. It requires the knowledge of the subject content, method techniques and teaching aids to be used for making teaching interesting and effective. The selection of teaching metho...
Logarithm Concept Teaching in Teaching Present Reasons
Two key points of logarithm concept teaching design view are examined in this study. Present Reasons educational theory is examined for purpose of achieving profound understanding of subject content. Academic course subj...