Nivel de conocimiento sobre signos de alarma en gestantes atendidas en un Hospital Público de El Oro

Abstract

The World Health Organization defines warning signs as those that indicate a negative change in maternal-fetal health; therefore, it is essential for the pregnant woman to be aware of them in order to detect them and request help in a timely manner. The objective of this research was to analyze the level of knowledge of danger signs in pregnancy in pregnant women attended in a public hospital in the province of El Oro. The type of research was quantitative, descriptive and analytical; 72 women who were hospitalized in the Gynecology service during October-November 2020 participated, chosen by convenience sampling. The data collection instrument was the survey whose analysis was performed using the SPSS v.25 program, hypotheses were tested through the following tests: Mann Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis H and Chi-square. It was determined that 75% of the participants were between 20-40 years old, 70.8% were in union, 50% had completed high school, 90.3% lived in the province of El Oro, 88.9% were housewives, 55.6% were multigestational, 58.3% attended ≥ 6 CPN and 90.3% received information from health professionals. It is concluded that there is a high and intermediate level of knowledge, less than half presented alarm signs and the response time to decide to go to a health center was less than 2 hours. There was a high association between the number of pregnancies and the level of knowledge.