Table 1 Women's awareness of obstetric danger signs during pregnancy, during delivery and after delivery (N = 1118).
From: Rural Tanzanian women's awareness of danger signs of obstetric complications
Obstetric danger sign | Awareness of | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pregnancy | Delivery | After delivery | ||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Vaginal bleeding | 107 | 9.6 | 149 | 13.3 | 259a | 23.2 |
Lack of blood (Anemia) | 97 | 8.7 | 28 | 2.5 | 83 | 7.4 |
Fits of pregnancy | 78 | 7.0 | 103 | 9.2 | 116 | 10.4 |
Severe abdominal pain | 60 | 5.4 | 19 | 1.7 | 52 | 4.7 |
High grade fever | 56 | 5.0 | 7 | 0.6 | 32 | 2.9 |
High blood pressure | 37 | 3.3 | 15 | 1.3 | 18 | 1.6 |
Severe headache | 21 | 1.9 | 7 | 0.6 | 5 | 0.4 |
Loss of consciousness | 8 | 0.7 | 25 | 2.7 | ||
Swelling of the lower limbs | 77 | 6.9 | 21 | 1.9 | ||
Awareness of fast heart beat | 18 | 1.6 | ||||
Child does not move | 13 | 1.2 | ||||
Prolonged labor | 17 | 1.5 | ||||
Retained placenta | 89 | 8.0 | ||||
Do not know any of the above | 832 | 74.4 | 863 | 77.2 | 672 | 60.1 |