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13. Frequency of Inattentive Attitude of Mothers towards Child’s Milestones Among Mothers of Karachi

Tafazzul H Zaidi1, Irfan Ashraf2 and Kiran Mehtab1

ABSTRACT

Objective: To assess mother’s knowledge about timely achievement of a child’s milestone from birth to age 3. To assess mother’s awareness about Physical, Intellectual, Social and emotional and Language development of a child.

Study Design: Cross sectional study

Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted at the Community Medicine, SMC, JSMU Karachi from March 2018 to August 2018.

Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted across five districts of Karachi .The districts where study was conducted included District East, West, South, North and Central Districts. The sample size of 284 mothers was drawn through non-probability purposive sampling. Data was collected through structured questionnaire. Pilot study was done to check the authenticity of questionnaire. Data was entered and analysed on statistical package for social sciences (SPSS version 20) with 95% confidence interval and 5% margin of error. P-value less than 0.005 were considered statistically significant.

Results: Out of 284 mothers, the mean age was 29.5 years ranging from 20 to 45 years. 64.8% (0.002) mothers didn’t know when a child is able to roll over. 68.3% (0.022) mothers didn’t know when a child starts to sit with support. 58% (0.030) mothers didn’t know when a child is able to stand with support. 70.4% (0.005) mothers didn’t know when a child is able to run forward. 76.8% (0.004) mothers didn’t know when a child is able to recognize primary care givers. 76.1% (0.003) mothers didn’t know when a child is able to pay attention to his/her own name. 62% (0.002) mothers didn’t know when a child is able to feed himself/herself with finger foods. 72.2% (0.000) mothers didn’t know when a child is able to indicate urge for defecation and urination. 80.3%  (0.001) mothers didn’t know when a child shows stranger shyness. 72.5% (0.000) mothers were unable to tell when a child is able to form a complete sentence. 57% (0.000) mothers didn’t know when a child is able to say double syllable words. 56.3% (0.014) mothers didn’t know when a child is able to name pictured objects.

Conclusion: The study concluded that mothers had insufficient knowledge about child’s physical development and mother’s awareness about child’s intellectual, social and language development was extremely poor.

Key Words: Child + Development+ Milestones+ Awareness+ Attitude

Citation of articles: Zaidi TH, Ashraf I, Mehtab K. Frequency of Inattentive Attitude of Mothers Towards Child’s Milestones Among Mothers of Karachi. Med Forum 2018;29(10):51-55.