Perceived Factors Influencing Compliance to Antenatal Care Services among Pregnant Women Attending World Bank Primary Health Care Centre Umuahia Abia State, Nigeria

Antenatal care service is very essential. The goal is to improve the health of the mother and the growing baby. Inadequate antennal visit affects the health of the mother and baby. The aim of the present study was to examine perceived factors influencing compliance to antennal care services among pregnant women attending primary health care Centre World Bank Umuahia Abia State. The variables examined were mother-related factors, hospital -related factors, and health worker-related factors. A cross-sectional descriptive design was used for the study. 46 basic pregnant mothers completed the study. No sampling was carried out. A researcher developed Questionnaire was used as instrument of data collection. Collected data was subjected to descriptive statistics. Findings revealed that the respondents perceived that mother related factors had significant influence on compliance to ANC (Grand mean 2.7). Nevertheless, the respondents perceived that educational level do not affect compliance to ANC (mean 2.30), the respondents perceived that hospital-related factors had a significant influence on compliance to ANC services (mean 2.7). The respondents perceived that the cost of antenatal service is high (mean 3.1) and the clinic is too far from their houses (mean 2.9), the respondents perceived health worker-related factors as not a significant factor influencing compliance to antenatal (mean 2.3), the finding also identified that scolding of the pregnant mothers by midwives had significant influence on compliance to antenatal care services (mean 2.8). Based on the finding, it was recommended that Government should reduce the cost of antenatal care services and midwives should avoid scolding the patients.