Study of knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers about Jaundice of Neonate

ABSTRACT The purpose of this descriptive study is determining knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers about Jaundice . The mothers who delivered into midwifery wards of Kerman and has a maximum of 20 days newborn baby responded to questions in their homes . Data collection performed by investigator-made questionnaire that its validity and reliability determined before gathering data . Statistical testes including chi-square, t, one way Anova, Kruskal-Wallis, Fisher and Pearson coefficient were used. The age of most subjects were 26-30 years (36.4%). In regard to education levels, the majority of mothers (33.2%) educated 9-12 school years and 76.8% cases were housekeepers. In general, studied mothers acquired 75.05% total knowledge scores and 75.5% total attitude scores. 72% of subjects done Jaundice prevention practices before and 42% after delivery. Among the mothers who had children with jaundice the majority (82%) refere to physician that in the most cases (51%) this practice was in primary priority and after referral. 71% mothers were used plant drugs which in 48% cases were in primary priority. There was a moderate correlation between total score of knowledge and attitude(r=0.46).