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A Cross-Sectional Hospital Based Study on Socio-Demographic Factors Associated With Anaemia among Pregnant Women Attending Labour Room in a Tertiary Care Hospital of South India. -
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Yerpude, Pravin N. Jogdand, Keerti S. |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | Introduction: Nutritional anaemia in pregnant women is one of the India’s major public health problems despite the fact that this problem is largely preventable and is easily treatable. In India over 95% of maternal deaths occur among women who have never had antenatal care. In India, anaemia is related to 16% of maternal deaths. Ideally every pregnant woman at the end of pregnancy must have received at least 100 IFA tablets which would prevent anaemia due to nutritional causes. But unfortunately in India this is not the picture. To assess this magnitude and the factors associated with anaemia at this particular stage needs to be investigated to find the exact scenario behind this. Here lies the need of study. Materials and methods: The present descriptive cross sectional study was undertaken among all pregnant women admitted for the delivery in a tertiary care hospital in south India. Clearance for the study was obtained from College Ethical Committee. From all the pregnant women interviewed, verbal informed consent was taken. Total 174 mothers participated in the study. Information was collected from pregnant women or accompanying responsible person attending labour room for delivery by using predesigned, pre-tested, structured questionnaire. Using Sahli’s method, haemoglobin estimation was done before delivery. Results: The average age of the pregnant women was 23.63 years. 69(39.66%) women were in third gravid followed by 52(29.89%) primigravida .Most of the pregnant women belong to joint family i.e. 11(63.79%) followed by 63(36.21%) women belonging to nuclear family. Among the pregnant women 143(82.18%) were anaemic. Most of the pregnant women i.e. 145(83.33%) were belonging to SES class I, II and III. The magnitude of anaemia was not found to be statistically significant with no of ANC visits and type of family and education status. Conclusion: Along with number of ANC visits, quality of health communication needs to be improved. For correct and early diagnosis of cause of anemia, early registration of pregnancy is to be stressed. Regularity of ANC visits and adherence to IFA should be emphasized. |
| Starting Page | 1 |
| Ending Page | 5 |
| Page Count | 5 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 5 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://ijhsr.org/IJHSR_Vol.5_Issue.3_March2015/1.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
