Pregnant women's knowledge and behaviour to prevent cytomegalovirus infection: an observational study.
Adult
Cross-Sectional Studies
Cytomegalovirus
/ isolation & purification
Cytomegalovirus Infections
/ congenital
Female
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical
/ prevention & control
Italy
/ epidemiology
Needs Assessment
Patient Education as Topic
/ methods
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
/ diagnosis
Pregnant Women
/ education
Risk Reduction Behavior
congenital infection
cytomegalovirus infection
pregnant women
prevention
Journal
Journal of perinatal medicine
ISSN: 1619-3997
Titre abrégé: J Perinat Med
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 0361031
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
26 Mar 2021
26 Mar 2021
Historique:
received:
29
06
2020
accepted:
17
09
2020
pubmed:
24
10
2020
medline:
4
11
2021
entrez:
23
10
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection can negatively affect pregnancy outcomes, but may be prevented by simple precautions. Literature suggests that gynaecologists do not always adequately inform about preventive behaviour and most pregnant women have a low-level knowledge regarding cCMV infection. The aim of this study is to evaluate knowledge and risk behaviours related to cCMV infection in an unselected group of pregnant women. An institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted in three Maternal and Fetal Divisions in Rome between November and February 2019 on 296 pregnant women, their knowledge on cCMV was measured using six cytomegalovirus (CMV) related questions. Out of the 296 respondents, 59.1% had heard, read or seen information about cCMV infection. Regarding the way of transmission, 96/296 (32.4%) correctly recognize children as a potential source of the infection but only 25/296 (8.44%) knew all prevention practices, 28/296 (9.5%) of women reported that they have never performed cCMV test during pregnancy. The results of this survey show that knowledge on cCMV infection among pregnant women is poor. This highlights the need to improve counselling on all preventive practices for cCMV infection during perinatal care consultation.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33095754
doi: 10.1515/jpm-2020-0301
pii: jpm-2020-0301
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Observational Study
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
327-332Informations de copyright
© 2020 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.
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