A STUDY TO ASSESS THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE REGARDING TORCH INFECTION AMONG ANTENATAL MOTHERS IN SELECTED HOSPITALS WITH A VIEW TO DEVELOP INFORMATION BOOKLET ON TORCH INFECTION.

Abstract

Background: All of the TORCH infections can affect people of any age or sex. However, the term TORCH is only used when it applies to pregnant women and their unborn or newborn children. As a group, TORCH infections represent a common cause of birth defects. They can cause still births in the delivery of a dead baby. Recurrent pregnancy loss is defined as three or more consecutive spontaneous losses of pregnancy. Despite the tremendous scientific and technological advance`s it has remained a dilemma. It’s still remains’ a diagnostic challenge and frustrating therapeutic experience to most obstetricians. It is a highly frustrating experience for the patient. Despite great advances made by the modern science and cutting edge technology, the large number of cases, almost 43% are still classified as due to unknown etiology. Known etiological factors include anatomical defects in Mullerian tract, TORCH infections, immunological problems. Many modern therapies, which are in 2 current uses, do not lead to a successful pregnancy outcome, resulting in great frustration to the patient and also to the obstetrician. Immunology plays a significant role in the pregnancy. Material and method: The present study represents non-experimental exploratory descriptive design research design was used to assess the knowledge regarding TORCH infection in selected hospital of Pune city. The self-structured questionnaire and self-structured checklist was used for data collection. The data collection was carried out by using knowledge questionnaires and data was analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Result: The result revels that knowledge among antenatal mother regarding TORCH infection is poor (88%), average is 12% and 0% good. Conclusion: A study was conducted to assess the level of knowledge regarding TORCH infection among antenatal mothers in selected hospitals. With the help of self- structured questionnaire data was collected to assess the level of knowledge regarding TORCH infection among antenatal mothers in selected hospitals. Among this data the maximum number of antenatal mother having poor knowledge which is 88 %. After that, 12 % of antenatal mother have average knowledge. And 0 % of antenatal mother have good knowledge. With the help of checklist data was collected to assess the level of knowledge regarding TORCH infection among antenatal mothers in selected hospitals. The study revealed that maximum number of antenatal mothers has poor knowledge.