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- Title
Knowledge on Vitamin D Deficiency among Antenatal Women in an View to Prepare Information Guide Sheet.
- Authors
R., Anishlyn; Punnose, Anna; Khonja, Josephine; P. J., Shiji; D'SiIva, Precilla
- Abstract
Vitamin D is essential to maintain bone health, playing a key role in bone mineralization. Severe vitamin D deficiency in children results in rickets. As stores of vitamin D in newborns are dependent on maternal vitamin D status, vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy leads to infant vitamin D deficiency and thus increases risk of rickets. Objectives: To assess the knowledge regarding Vitamin D deficiency and to find the association of knowledge score and demographic variables. Materials and Methods: A descriptive approach was adopted for this study. The study was conducted in OBG outpatient department of tertiary Hospital at Mangaluru The study sample was 100 antenatal women. A knowledge questionnaire was used to collect the data regarding knowledge on vitamin D deficiency. Result: In this study 65% of antenatal women had average knowledge, 34% antenatal women had poor knowledge and single antenatal women had good knowledge on vitamin D deficiency. The knowledge in the area of complication to the fetus was 38%, knowledge in the other areas were daily requirements 56%, prevention 52% and signs and syrnptoms48%.
- Subjects
VITAMIN D deficiency; BONE physiology; VITAMIN deficiency; MINERALIZATION; PRENATAL care
- Publication
Nitte University Journal of Health Science, 2018, Vol 8, Issue 3, p3
- ISSN
2249-7110
- Publication type
Article