HEALTH NEEDS

This study was designed to investigate the health needs and health problems of prenatal women in Ovia Northeast Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria. Four (4) research questions were raised to guide the study. The descriptive cross- sectional survey design was adopted, and the multistage sampling technique was used to select 60 respondents for this study. The instrument used for data collection was the researcher-designed questionnaire and was validated by the researcher’s project
supervisor. The reliability of the instrument was established using the test re-test method of estimating reliability. After computation, the reliability yielded a Coefficient of 0.724. The questionnaire was distributed directly to the respondents by
the researcher. After the collection and collation of the instrument, the data obtained were subjected to analysis using descriptive statistics of frequency counts, and percentage.