Socio-demographic Profile of females with Pregnancy wastage
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2019, Vol 18, Issue 1
Abstract
To study the socio-demographic profile of females with pregnancy wastage.A cross sectional study was done in women of age group 20-40yrs in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology in Era’s lucknow Medical College Lucknow.The subjects were selected by systematic randomn sampling .The different types of pregnancy wastage were analyzed according to some variables viz age, literacy,occupation of mother, birth order, birth interval .Result : total of 200 women were covered . Maximum number of women viz., 81.02 % were above 35 years of age and minimum viz 54.39% were in 20-24 year age group .Lowest percentage was observed at 1 st order (31.5%)of birth and highest was observed at 4 thorder(74.5%). Pregnancy wastage according to interval between births maximum wastage was seen at interval of 1 year between birth (48.2%) and > 6 (43.7%) The pregnancy wastage among illiterate women (50.4%) outnumber those among literate women(43.9%).Pregnancy wastage in our set up is mainly due to preventable and treatable risk factors which should be taken care of to prevent the wastage.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. Deepali Mehra, Dr. Parul Sinha, Dr. Prof Uma gupta, Dr. Shivam Mehra
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