Relationship between the level of knowledge and attitude towards vertical birth in pregnant women treated at the José Carlos Mariátegui maternal and child center in Villa María del Triunfo, 2023

Abstract

Peru is considered a multicultural country, with varied and different customs rooted in each community, having a relationship with each other. If necessary, the Ministry of Health, among other organizations, has been working together with health personnel to respect and put into practice, at the rural and urban level, their customs, beliefs and rights. Today, there are guidelines to facilitate intercultural adaptation and relevance, as well as assertive transmission through the constant training of Doctors and Obstetricians, to provide appropriate care and information to pregnant women in our country. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to determine the relationship that exists between the level of knowledge and attitudes of vertical birth in pregnant women treated at the José Carlos Mariátegui Maternal and Child Center, 2023. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Correlational, quantitative study, non-experimental design of cross section. The population was made up of 120 pregnant women. The information was obtained through surveys that were divided into 4 parts: knowledge of vertical birth, attitude of pregnant women towards vertical birth, obstetric and sociodemographic data in 21 open questions adapted to the Estanones scale. RESULTS: Data from 120 pregnant women between 18 and 37 years of age from the José Carlos Mariátegui Maternal and Child Center were analyzed. In this study, it was found that 64 (53%) of these. They presented a medium level of knowledge, 72 (60%) of them obtained a regular attitude, which certified a characteristic relationship according to the Rho equal to 0.864 between knowledge and the attitude of the pregnant women. CONCLUSION: Consequently, a high and directly proportional relationship was observed between the level of knowledge and attitudes towards vertical birth in the women attended at the José Carlos Mariátegui Maternal and Child Center.

La presente investigación tiene por objetivo determinar la relación entre la hipertensión inducida por el embarazo con el bajo peso del recién nacido en el Hospital San Juan de Lurigancho, de Lima, en el periodo de 2021 a 2022. El diseño del estudio es no experimental, de corte trasversal de tipo cuantitativa. Los resultados fueron respectos a la hipertensión inducida por el embarazo y el bajo peso del recién nacido donde se obtuvo el mayor porcentaje la preeclampsia severa con bajo peso al nacer. En cuanto a la edad materna, el grupo de 20 a 34 años fueron con mayor porcentaje, en lo que respecta al número de embarazo el porcentaje más altos fue encontrado en el primer número de gestación, en relación al periodo intergenésico el porcentaje más alto fue encontrado en el intervalo mayor a cuatro años, en cuanto a la edad gestacional, el grado de 37 semanas a más se puede destacar con mayor porcentaje. Se concluyó que hubo una asociación estadísticamente significativa entre la hipertensión inducida por el embarazo y el bajo peso al nacer según la prueba de Kruskal-Wallis.