Women's knowledge about late motherhood and pregnancy outcome in Kirkuk City

الملخص EN

Objectives : Assess women's Knowledge about Advanced Maternal Age and Pregnancy outcome.

Methodology : A descriptive study using the assessment approach was conduct on women, who ages above 35 years old.

A purposive (non probability) sample of (58) women's that was selected for study in Azady teaching hospital and Kirkuk general hospital from the period July 1st 2013 to April 10th 2014.

A questionnaire was developed for the purpose of study Result: The study findings demonstrate that the following variable was contributing significantly in the occurrence of complications during late motherhood among the study sample which include (age, late marred, level of education, smoking, and consanguinity).

In sequence (67.3 %, 33 %, 27.1 %, 27.5 %, 63.7 %) The findings indicate that the women knowledge about risk of advanced maternal age generally is good for knowledge scale items.

Conclusions : Late marred of girls can be interrupted as a one sources of late motherhood mortality and morbidity.

More than half of the study sample has high level of knowledge about risk of their age on pregnancy outcome.

Recommendation : Continuous education & training courses for health team especially to improve their knowledge and to take their roles in teaching and giving advice & instructions to pregnant women during certain age.

And encourage the females about early marriage, and explain the risks of late marriage on both the baby and the woman.