Effect of Health Education on Grass Root Level Health Workers regarding Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act (MTP Act)
Journal Title: Healthline - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
Introduction: Despite being legally available in India since 1971, barriers to safe and legal abortion remain and unsafe and illegal abortion continues to be the problem. For proper knowledge of legal abortion medical, paramedical and grass root level health workers must have proper knowledge about the MTP Act. Objective: To Assess the knowledge of grass root level health workers regarding MTP Act and to measure the improvement in knowledge after health Education. Method: An interventional study was carried out at Sahaj trust, Baroda. 30 workers who attended a workshop on 9th July, 2015 were administered a pre and post test questionnaire. All workers were from different Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) from all over Gujarat and all were working in maternal and child health services. After completion of their pre test, all 30 participants were given an interactive talk on MTP Act by experts. All participants were asked to answer a similar questionnaire after giving health talk and the difference in the knowledge between pre and post was calculated by applying a paired t-test. Analysis: Analysis was done using MedCalc software. Means and SD of pre and post intervention scores were calculated and paired t-test was applied. Results: Mean ± SD of pre-intervention questionnaire score were 10.30 ± 2.88 and Mean ± SD of post-intervention scores were 14.30 ± 2.95(Total score was 20). Analysis of these data on applying paired t-test showed that there was significant improvement in the knowledge of health care workers after educating them on MTP Act. (p=<0.0001) Conclusion: Health Education of Grass root level health workers resulted in improvement of their knowledge about MTP Act. Implication: It is necessary to empower grass root health workers by giving them health education on MTP Act and improving their knowledge on regular interval.
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Rahul D. Khokhariya, Nikhil J. Patel, Sangita Patel, Maitri Shah
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