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Antenatal care is the clinical assessment of mother and fetus, during the period of pregnancy used for getting the best possible result for the mother and child. Early observation and ongoing care during pregnancy provided more favorable births compared to no prenatal observation.Objective: The present study aimed to compare knowledge and attitude regarding antenatal care among Primigravida mothers and their life partners attending antenatal clinics of selected hospitals of Kalaburagi.Methodology: A comparative descriptive approach with exploratory descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The samples from the antenatal clinics of selected hospital were selected using convenient sampling technique. The sample consisted of 100 (50+50) primigravida mothers and their life partner's. The tools used for data collection was structured knowledge questionnaire and structured attitude scale.Results: The primigravida mother's group, 28(56%) respondents were having moderate knowledge and 22(44%) were having poor knowledge. Among the life partner's group, 38(76%) respondents were having moderate knowledge, 8(16%) respondents were having poor knowledge and 4(8%) were having good knowledge. Among the primigravida mother's group, 24(48%) respondents were having favorable attitude, each 13(26%) were having negative and positive attitude. the life partner's group, 25(50%) respondents were having favorable attitude, 16(32%) respondents were having negative attitude and 9(18%) were having positive attitude. The statistical significance of the mean knowledge and attitude score difference between primigravida mothers group and life partner's group was tested and the 't' (98) = 1.88 and 0.49 for knowledge and attitude respectively. It is found not significant at 0.05 level. It indicates that there is no significant statistical difference between the two groups with respect to their knowledge and attitude regarding antenatal care.Conclusion: The findings revealed that, Knowledge and attitude of primigravida mothers and their life partner's regarding antenatal care was moderate and favourable. Since a very few studies have been conducted regarding this topic in India, so the nurse researcher can take further studies on the same topic.
Raziuddin et al. (Mon,) studied this question.