Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

This study aims to assessment of knowledge for pregnant women toward risk of pregnancy and to identify the association between level of awareness and demographic data. Quantitative design (Descriptive study) was conducted during the period 15^th November 2018 at 25^th March 2019 in the city of Al-Amara at Southern of Iraq. A simple random sample is used by the researcher to select (4) primary health care centers. Purposive sample of (150) pregnant women visiting health centers were selected according to special criteria. The data was collected through interview method by using constructed instrument, which consisted of (2) parts. The first part for socio-demographic characteristic and second part to risk of pregnancy which contain: nutritional; exercise; smoking; caffeine; polycystic ovary syndrome; radiation; consanguineous marriages, and non prescription drugs. The mean score and standard deviation for overall domains to risk of pregnancy were moderate level of knowledge were (1.93 ± 0.433) with the majority sample 63 (42%). Moreover, the findings of the study demonstrated that there was no significant between women's age and knowledge at (P> 0.05), but there were high significant between level of education, occupation, monthly income and level of knowledge at (P< 0.01).