ANTENATAL INTERACTIONS: IMPERATIVES OF CLEAR INFORMATION EXCHANGE BETWEEN CAREGIVERS AND EXPECTANT MOTHERS – International Journal of Social Sciences and Management Review

ANTENATAL INTERACTIONS: IMPERATIVES OF CLEAR INFORMATION EXCHANGE BETWEEN CAREGIVERS AND EXPECTANT MOTHERS

Authors: Nancy Nnenna Anaba, Walter Ihejirika, Ph.D & Innocent Paschal Ihechu, Ph.D

ABSTRACT

This study investigated Antenatal Interactions: Imperatives of Clear Information Exchange between Caregivers and Expectant Mothers. There were two sets of population in this study. The first population comprised the Public Primary Health Centers (PHCs) in the five states of South-East Nigeria which was (2,110) and the second population comprised the total number of women in the five states of the South-East who are between the ages of 18 and 45 (7,159,548). The sample size for the first population was 32 which represented 30% of the total number PHCs in the five L.G.A’s sampled from the five states in the South-East Nigeria and the second sample size for the second population was 384 calculated with online sample size calculator at survey system.com. The study adopted survey research design with questionnaire as instrument for data collection. Finally, the data were descriptively analysed and thematically explained. The results from the study revealed that healthcare givers clearly exchanged information to expectant mothers in South-East Nigeria during antenatal interactions. It was therefore concluded that adequate, appropriate and timely information exchange during antenatal interactions guaranteed satisfaction of expectant mothers.

Expectant mothers are easily irritated. Therefore, it is recommended that healthcare givers must always ensure that politeness and caring are their watchword during antenatal and other healthcare delivery interactions. This attitude would ensure that every healthcare seeker would not engage in self-care for the fear of engaging in infuriating information exchanges during healthcare interactions.

Keywords: Information, antenatal, antenatal information, expectant mothers, healthcare givers.

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