Associationship and gap between knowledge and practice on maternal health among pregnant women

The present study carried out at purposively selected Diamond Harbour-1 block of South 24 Parganas District, West Bengal. One Sub Centre (SC) was selected from one Gram Panchayet (GP) which is situated beside GPs. Total eight SCs was selected for selection of respondents. Total 121 no. of respondents comprised of all the reproductive age group of 18-45 yrs women was selected. There was one condition for selection of pregnant women who were registered during January month of the year of 2013 on eight SCs and availed of the services from the same sub-centre throughout their pregnancy period to post partum period. Data was collected during month of January to December 2013 to assess the knowledge and practice among women on maternal health services for factors associated with Antenatal Care (ANC), Intranatal Care (INC) and Postnatal Care (PNC). The study revealed that women’s health knowledge and practice has significant difference on that issues like 2 hrs rest in day and use of iodised salt during pregnancy, institutional delivery, home delivery conducted by trained personnel, rupees one thousand is provided from hospital after delivery, 3 times post natal health check up, colostrum feeding, exclusive breast feeding, 8 hrs rest in night time, food given for 6 months after delivery, need of family planning method, use of oral pill method, use of condom method, methods provided from SC, birth spacing.