NZANZU JEREMIE

Maternal Health information is fundamental to reduce maternal mortality of a given community. Accessing maternal health information by the women can easily make community members make their own informed decisions that can lead to improving their health. Women are usually disadvantaged as far as accessing health information is concerned. It is against this background that this study is therefore concerned with studying the sources of maternal health information amongst the rural women of reproductive age in. Descriptive study design using both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection was used. Structured interview method was used to obtain quantitative data while unstructured interview method was used in the qualitative study through focus group discussions and key informant interviews. Cluster sampling method was used to identify study participants who were women with children under one year. A sample size of 210 women of reproductive age 15-49 years were taken. Simpl...