Objective: To study the knowledge, attitude, and practice of pregnant women regarding transmission and preventive measures of COVID-19 from mother to child and to determine the reasons for vaccine hesitancy.Methods: This observational cross-sectional knowledge, attitude, and practice study was conducted among pregnant women of any trimester, attending the antenatal care out-patient department of a tertiary care hospital in Lucknow from October 2020 to March 2021. All the participants were interviewed using a pretested semi-structured questionnaire for desired information. Reasons for vaccine hesitancy were also asked to assess their unwillingness to get vaccinated. Results: Totally 652 pregnant women were included and 91.3％ were aware that COVID-19 spread through contact with an infected person and 85.3％ knew that COVID-19 spread by respiratory droplets. Of pregnant women, 95.7％ perceived that social distancing and wearing a proper mask were effective ways to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection and 96.8％ of the pregnant women wore masks regularly when going out. Of pregnant women, 79.0％ were hesitant to get vaccinated. The most common reason was that COVID-19 vaccine can harm the developing fetus (77.5％) and was not very safe in pregnancy (75.0％). Conclusions: Of the pregnant women, 22.92％ have unsatisfactory knowledge regarding COVID-19, 35.63％ have negative attitude and 19.93％ have poor practices, indicating that there are still gaps in awareness, and majority of them are unwilling to get vaccinated. Good awareness will help prevent the occurrence of future COVID-19 waves in India.

Neetu Singh;Sugandha Jauhari

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology,DR.Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences,Lucknow,India;Department of Community Medicine and Public Health,King George Medical University,Lucknow,India

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[1]Neetu Singh;Sugandha Jauhari-.Awareness about transmission and preventive measures of COVID-19 from mother to child: A cross-sectional study among pregnant women)[J].亚太生殖杂志（英文版）,2022(06):261-268

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