Status of information, education, and communication as perceived by clients receiving antenatal care at Chiradzulu District Hospital in Malawi.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Information, education, and communication is a strategy to spread awareness through communication channels to a target audience to achieve a desired positive result. Women are supposed to receive information, education, and communication at each contact with the health worker during antenatal care. In Malawi, information, education, and communication for antenatal care is inadequate despite high antenatal care coverage. Most women do not receive it as stipulated. This could be one of the reasons that maternal and neonatal mortality is high. The provision of information, education, and communication is supposed to help in reducing maternal mortality because it is intended to develop positive attitudes towards health behaviours to support pregnant women accessing health se

SUBMITTER: Lungu GG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9909957 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature