Awareness of Health Seeking Behaviour of Postpartum Mental Illness Among Pregnant Women Attending Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria Antenatal Clinic

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dc.contributor.authorOlubiyi, S.K
dc.contributor.authorIssa, B.A.
dc.contributor.authorLaitan, O.L.
dc.contributor.authorOnasoga, O.A.
dc.contributor.authorAbubakar, I.
dc.contributor.authorIbrahim, H
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-02T14:01:08Z
dc.date.available2023-06-02T14:01:08Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractMental health problems have adverse effects on a woman’s obstetrical outcome. Hence, the aim of the study was to assess the awareness of health seeking behaviour of postpartum mental illness among pregnant women attending Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria antenatal clinic. A research design of cross sectional descriptive study was used with a population of two hundred and forty (240) consecutive pregnant women receiving antenatal care in ABUTH, Zaria. A structured, self administered questionnaire was used for data collection. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used with SPSS version 16 to analyze the data generated at 5% level of significance. Majority of the women, 142(59.2%), had good awareness of postpartum mental illness, 184(76.7%) of the respondents had a poor health seeking behavior towards the disorder. There was significant relationship found between awareness of postpartum mental illness and health seeking behavior for the disorder. Government at all levels of health care should scale up public awareness on postpartum mental illness with improved health education on mental healthcare centers. Also, the establishment of mental health facilities in areas strategically close to the vast majority of the population they are meant to serve will assist in controlling the menace of postpartum mental illness.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12484/10909
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Health promotion and Environmental Health Education, Faculty of Education, University of Ilorinen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries2(1);28-36
dc.subjectAwareness, Health seeking behaviour, postpartum mental illness, pregnant women.en_US
dc.titleAwareness of Health Seeking Behaviour of Postpartum Mental Illness Among Pregnant Women Attending Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria Antenatal Clinicen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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