Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice towards Hepatitis B Virus among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care at the University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia
Table 4
Attitude towards hepatitis B virus among pregnant women attending ANC in the University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia, in 2018.
Attitude items
Response
Frequency
Percentage (%)
Do you think you can get hepatitis B?
Yes
199
56.2
No
155
43.8
What would be your reaction if you found that you have hepatitis B?
Fear
16
4.5
Sadness
20
5.6
Go to health facility
318
89.8
Do you have hepatitis B?
Yes
25
7
No
329
92.9
Whom would you communicate to about your illness?
Physician
79
22.3
Parents
132
37.3
Husband
142
40.1
No one
1
0.3
What will you do if you think that you have symptoms of hepatitis B?
Go to health facility
182
51.4
Go to traditional healers
169
47.7
Will not go anywhere
3
0.9
If you had symptoms of hepatitis B, at what stage would you go to the health facility?
As soon as I realized the symptoms
288
81.4
After 2-4 weeks of the appearance of the symptoms
41
11.9
Own treatment fails
23
6.5
Will not go to health facility
2
0.6
How expensive do you think is the diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis B?
Cheap
16
4.5
Free
12
33.9
Moderately expensive
65
18.4
Expensive
70
19.8
I do not know
191
54
What worries you if you are diagnosed with hepatitis B?
Cost of treatment
29
8.2
Fear of transmitting the disease to family members
