The correlation among pregnant woman's education level with knowledge and behaviour on readiness toward COVID-19 pandemic.
Mariatul Kiftia, Mira Rizkia, Dara Ardhia and 1 others
PMID 35935731WHAT IT FOUND
Higher education was associated with better reported pandemic knowledge and behaviour in 138 surveyed pregnant women, but no infection or pregnancy outcomes were measured.
Key findings
01The survey included 138 pregnant women in two Aceh regions, recruited by snowball sampling.
02The paper reported significant relationships between education level and both knowledge and behaviour about pandemic readiness, with p = 0.000.
03In the table, 12 of 47 middle-education women and 56 of 91 higher-education women were classified as having good knowledge; 15 of 47 and 67 of 91 were classified as having good behaviour.
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What it does not show
The sample was an online snowball sample of 138 pregnant women in two Indonesian districts, so it may not represent other pregnant women. The study measured reported knowledge and behaviour at one time, not infection, birth, or maternal outcomes. Because it was cross-sectional, it cannot show that education caused better knowledge or behaviour. The knowledge results are inconsistent: the text says 50.7% had good knowledge, but the table lists 68 of 138 as good. The paper does not report how the questionnaire was validated or how answers were classified.
Declared interests
The authors received no specific funding and declared no conflict of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that higher education causes better pandemic behaviour or that an education programme will improve maternal or infection outcomes. The study was a cross-sectional survey of reported knowledge and behaviour, and it did not measure health outcomes.