A Cross Sectional Study on Factors Influencing Utilization of Antenatal Health Services in Bhojipura Block, District Bareilly
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 11
Abstract
Background: Antenatal care is the care of the woman during pregnan-cy. The primary aim of antenatal care is to achieve at the end of a pregnancy a healthy mother and a healthy baby. In order to increase the utilization of antenatal care fa-cility and thereby reducing the ma-ternal morbidity and mortality, there is a need to understand the factors acting as barriers in the uti-lization of ANC among women. Material & Methods: A community based cross-sectional study was conducted in Bhojipura Block, rural field practice area of department of Community Medicine, Shri Ram Murti Samarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly India. Total 480 Recently Delivered Women (RDW) were interviewed. Result: Majority 419 (87.3%) of RDW were registered for pregnancy and out of 419 RDW, 255 (60.8%) pregnant women registered in sec-ond trimester. Most of the ANC ser-vices were facilitated by ASHA 267 (55.6%) to RDW and maximum 369 (76.9%) RDW received only two an-tenatal check-up. Conclusion: It needs to be empha-sized here that early registration should be utilized for continuum of care and institutional delivery. The age, education, religion, type of fam-ily, birth order and socioeconomic status of RDW significantly influ-ence in ANC service utilization.
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Sumit Saxena, Alok Kumar Singh, Sonam Maheshwari, Shyam Bihari Gupta
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