ACKNOWLEGDEMENT

This study entitled COMPARATIVE STUDY ON HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR OF PREGNANT WOMEN IN RURAL AND URBAN AREAS completed with the responsibility involve with the following: To my Adviser Maam Aya Toreja and Maam----, who help modifying our research for completion and to become more understandable, thank you very much maam for being genuine patient and kind concerning to our thesis. To Maam Stazy Cayetano, even though youre too busy you gave time to us to validate our questionnaire. We owe our deepest gratitude for being part of our research. To my co-members in this thesis, dealing with this study is the mean part because we do our best to enhance our insights and perception regarding this study. We will not complete this without our efforts and sacrifices. Thanks to us we made this with knowledge and skills. To the Baraggay officials who permitted us to conduct and held our survey especially at the province of Mangatarem Pangasinan and the City of Valenzuela, its our pleasure and gratitude for your presence in this study. To our alma mater OUR LADY OF FATIMA-VALENZUELA, for their professionalism especially to the College of Nursing, namely to the Coordinator of 104-105 Sir Dino and to the Coordinator of 106-107 Maam Garcia. And lastly to our dearest Father God, for the blessings and gracious things you have given to us. Thank you and hope this study will come up a good outcome.

RECOMMENDATION Based from the finding and conclusion formulated in this research study, the following recommendations are hereby proposed: Pregnant women can use their behavior to enrich their knowledge and skills for being healthy and for the sake of their child. In this action, pregnant women can hinder complications related to their pregnancy. Health care provider in rural and urban areas should be more flexible in which locale you have been assign, so that you will be able to promote good health, prevent diseases and alleviate suffering in each pregnant women. With this strategy our country can have a less mortality rate in pregnancy. For the future researchers related to our study, keep on researching and broaden the knowledge of individual, more topics should be taught and apply regarding pregnancy.