Knowledge about preeclampsy in people

Objective Identify the level of knowledge about preeclampsia that pregnant women have. Methodology The design was cross-sectional because it looks for important characteristics of the phenomenon to be studied and because data was collected only once, in a given time. (Burns & Grove, 2012) The population consisted of pregnant women from the Veracruz-Boca del Rio area. The sample consisted of 30 pregnant women who were identified through non-probabilistic sampling at convenience. Results the information that pregnant women receive during their pregnancy or before about preeclampsia is important to influence the presence of this or its possible complications, in our study we found that 60% have a high level of knowledge which indicates that there is A good teaching on this subject in the area under investigation. 23.4% of the sample turned out to have a low level of knowledge while 16.6% obtained a medium level of knowledge. Conclusions The level of knowledge about preeclampsia in pregnant Veracruz women was high, which corresponded to 60% with more than 20 correct answers, 16.6% medium level with 16 to 20 correct answers and 23.4% low level with less than 16 correct answers. He found that the risk factors that pregnant women know best are age over 35 years, age under 20 years, first pregnancy, obesity, history of hypertension in previous pregnancies and Diabetes Mellitus.