Effectiveness of DFMC chart versus Caardiff Ten Count chart on mother’s perception among antenatal mothers

Pregnancy is considered as a very precious event in every women‘s life. It is illed with happiness, joy and surprises. Every parents hopes for a healthy baby, but may sometimes become sorrowful when danger sets in either to the mother or to the fetus. Pregnancy links mother and fetus together and is the basis for regeneration and the generation. In high-risk pregnancies, the mother may sometimes escape death but fetus and neonates often become the victim so the present study aims to assess the effectiveness of DFMC chart and Cardiff count ten charts on mother’s perception among antenatal mothers. A quantitative approach with Pre-Experimental research one-shot case design was adopted to conduct the study among 30 antenatal mothers who were selected byNonprobability convenience sampling technique. The semistructured interview method was used to collect the demographic data and the level of the mother’s perception among antenatal mothers was assessed by a structured questionnaire. The results of the study shows that among 30 samples in the DFMC group, 9(60%) had good perception 5(33.33%) had very good perception and 1(6.7%) had poor perception. Whereas in the Cardiff Ten Count, 10(66.7%) had goodperception and5(33.33%) had very goodperception on fetal movement among antenatal mothers. This study proves that DFMC and CARDIFF chart on mother’s perception is an effective method to prevent any fetal complication during pregnancy and also it helps the mothers to improve to the knowledge and to provide the better quality of life to maternal.


INTRODUCTION
Pregnancy is considered as a very precious event in every women's life. It is illed with happiness, joy and surprises. Every parents hopes for a healthy baby, but may sometimes become sorrowful when danger sets in either to the mother or to the fetus. Pregnancy links mother and fetus together and is the basis for regeneration and the generation. In high risk pregnancies, the mother may sometimes escape death but fetus and neonates often become the victim (Dutta, 2004;Delaram and Shams, 2016).
During the past decades, there has been signi icant improvement in obstetrics in achieving the antenatal surveillance of high-risk pregnancy. Since above 75 per cent of fetal death occur in the ante partum, it is oblivious that limiting foetal surveillance to intrapartum period will not achieve an optimal perinatal outcome. To be clinically useful ante partum test should be readily available, easy to perform, consis-tently reproducible, cost-effective, easy to interpret and reliable, so that appropriate intervention can be undertaken when necessary. Assessing of foetal wellbeing by monitoring foetal movement count by antenatal mothers ful ils all the above criteria. Process of birth is the most dangerous journey an individual undertakes. A healthy newborn is the goal of every expectant mother and her physician. Yet for every 10000 births, the perinatal mortality is 37.7, varies from 24.8 in Kerala to 75.5/10,000 in Orissa. It is higher in rural (54.4) and lowers in urban and in TamilNadu 37.9/10,000. It is estimated that 7.3 million perinatal deaths occur annually in the world and most of these in the developing countries. In India alone about8, 90,000 perinatal deaths occur annually (WHO, 2016).

FEMINA (Fetal Movement Intervention Assessment)
Ongoing International research collaboration conducted a study to improve pregnancy outcome. The indings reveal that women still do not get enough information on the importance of the fetal activity to act in such a way to protect their baby. In 2008, Freon reported that 50% of affected mothers waited more than 24 hours without any fetal activity before contacting health professionals; one in three waited more than 48 hours. (Saastad et al., 2010), conducted a study on a multicenter controlled trial on 1,013 woman with a singleton pregnancy were randomly assigned either to perform daily foetal movement counting from pregnancy week 28 or to follow standard Norwegian antenatal care where foetal movement counting is not encouraged. The results of the study are women who performed foetal movement counting in the third trimester reported less concern than those in control group (Saastad et al., 2010).
Within the ield of midwifery and obstetric, maternal perception of fetal movement in utero has long been an indicator of fetal well-being. Early textbooks de ined maternal recognition of fetal movement as "Quickening," a milestone for dating the pregnancy and a veri ication of viability. A decrease or cessation of fetal movement was further acknowledgement as a sign of fetal death. In the past 20 years, the assessment has been re ined as an accurate and valid tool for fetal surveillance (Olesen and Svare, 2004;Singh and Sidhu, 2008).
Health care providers have made an achievement in decreasing poor outcomes of pregnancy by using newer technological procedures for the assessment of fetal well-being. The nonstress test, contraction stress test, ultrasound scan, and biophysical pro ile are accepted screening and diagnostic tools in ante-natal care. Yet these procedures are costly, invasive, and carry risks, making them impractical for the use as routine screening tools in low-risk pregnancies (Sergent et al., 2005).
Maternal counting of fetal movement can be used as a screening tool for low and high-risk pregnancies. Few studies have demonstration which method of counting increased has increased compliance. Furthermore, few studies have included maternal variables that may affect compliance. Maternalfetal attachment may be related to the women's compliance with antenatal screening care such as fetal movement counts (Jon and Ligtte, 2013;Winje, 2011;Victoria, 2010).
However, even fewer studies have evaluated the mother's reaction to be the completion of fetal movement counts. In order to be clinically useful, movements counts must be well accepted by the mother, easy to use, and not cause unnecessary anxiety with her pregnancy. Most of the mothers do not seek immediate medical attention for less fetal movement. This leads to an increasing alarm to teach all mothers about fetal kick count. The researcher has taken a step ahead to create awareness regarding fetal well being and to increase the mother's perception by using DFMC chart and CARDIFF TEN COUNT chart.
The purpose of the study, 1. To assess the fetal movement using the DFMC chart among antenatal mothers.
2. To assess the mother's perception on DFMC and Cardiff count ten charts.
3. To determine the association between fetal movement with the socio-demographic variables among antenatal mothers.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
A quantitative research approach with preexperimental research design was used to conduct a study in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department of Thiruvalur District HeadQuarter Government Hospital. 30 samples were selected by using a convenience sampling technique. The inclusion criteria for samples were all primigravidae and multigravida mothers, all antenatal mothers beyond 28 weeks with a singleton pregnancy and who were willing to participate in this study and can understand Tamil and English. The exclusion criteria for the samples were antenatal mothers with labour pain, mothers with intrauterine fetal death, antepartum haemorrhage and eclampsia. The data  collection period was done with prior permission from the HOD of Obstetrics & Gynaecology department, Thiruvalur District HeadQuarter Government Hospital and ethical clearance was obtained from the institution. The purpose of the study was explained to the samples and written informed consent was obtained from them. The demographic data were collected using a structured interview questionnaire, and the level of maternal perception regarding DFMC and CARDIFF TEN COUNT chart was assessed using the structured questionnaire. After collecting the baseline data from 15 mothers, DFMC chart given and instructed to record the number of fetal movement perceived by the mother one hour after food ( breakfast, lunch, and dinner) and 15 mothers were given to Cardiff count ten charts and instructed to record the fetal for a period of 8-12 hours. Both charts were collected the next day and mothers were asked to ill up the questionnaire regarding her perception about the fetal movement chart. Pearson's correlation coef icient was used to assess the effectiveness of DFMC and CARDIFF TEN COUNT chart on mother's perception among antenatal mother. Chi-square was used to an association of level of mother's perception of fetal movement (DFMC and CARDIFF TEN COUNT) with their selected demographic variables.
Section B: Level of mother's perception of fetal movement among antenatal mothers DFMC group, 9(60%) had a good perception of 5(33.33%) had very good perception and 1(6.7%) had poor perception. Whereas in the Cardiff Ten Count, 10(66.7%) had good perception and 5(33.33%) had very good perception on fetal movement among antenatal mothers. (Table 1)

Section C: Effectiveness of DFMC chart versus CARDIFF TEN COUNT chart on mother's perception on fetal movement among antenatal mothers
The present study reveals that the mean score of DFMC on mother's perception on fetal movement was 34.33±4.89 and the mean score of Cardiff Ten Count was 34.73±4.54. The calculated student independent 't' test value of t = 0.232 was not found to be statistically signi icant. The above inding clearly infers that there was no signi icant difference in the mother's perception on fetal movement between DFMC and Cardiff Ten Count. There will be a signi icant association in knowledge and perception regarding DFMC and CARDIFF TEN COUNT chart. (Table 2) The present study is supported by (Ashna and &amp;Sreerenjini, 2017) conducted a study on the DFMC Chart Versus Cardiff Count Ten Chart in Relation to Maternal Compliance and Mothers Perception on Self-Assessment of Foetal Wellbeing. Two main protocols used to assess the foetal wellbeing are Cardiff count of ten charts and DFMC chart. On comparison of the DFMC chart and count ten charts, there was a statistically signi icant difference observed at p<0.05 level, showing DFMC chart was effective for the self-assessment of fetal wellbeing by antenatal mothers and in relation to maternal compliance. Hence both the hypothesis is proved for the present study. 11 Section D: Association of the level of mother's perception on fetal movement (DFMC and CARDIFF TEN COUNT) with selected demographic variable The demographic variables religion, composition of the family had shown statistically signi icant association with the level of mother's perception on fetal movement (DFMC) at p<0.01 level respectively. The demographic variable history of risk during current pregnancy had shown statistically signi icant association with the level of mother's perception on fetal movement (DFMC) at p<0.05 Whereas in CARDIFF TEN COUNT shown none of the demographic variables had shown statistically signi icant association with the level of mother's perception on fetal movement (Cardiff Ten Count) among antenatal mothers.
The present study was supported by (Kanakalakshmi et al., 2018) who conducted a Comparative study on DFMC chart vs Cardiff count ten chart on an assessment of fetal movement among antenatal mothers at NMCH, Nellore. The results of the study are among 100 antenatal mothers regarding the association between DFMC count and demographic variables, age, type of family, obstetrical score and source of information had signi icant association at P<0.05 level. Regarding the association between Cardiff count and demographic variables, religion, obstetrical score and source of infor-mation had signi icant association at P<0.05 level. Hence the hypothesis is proved for the present study (Kanakalakshmi et al., 2018).

CONCLUSIONS
This study proves that DFMC and CARDIFF chart on mother's perception is an effective method to prevent any fetal complication during pregnancy and also it helps the mothers to improve to the knowledge and to provide the better quality of life to maternal.