Prevalence and Factors Associated with Late Antenatal Care Booking Among Pregnant Women Attending Sekoutoure Regional Hospital in Nyamagana, Mwanza, Tanzania.
Samuel, Salvatory CUHAS/MD/4001287/T/14
Prevalence and Factors Associated with Late Antenatal Care Booking Among Pregnant Women Attending Sekoutoure Regional Hospital in Nyamagana, Mwanza, Tanzania. - Mwanza, Tanzania: Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences [CUHAS – Bugando] Phone: +255 28 298 3384 Fax: +255 28 298 3386 Email: vc@bugando.ac.tz Website: www.bugando.ac.tz © 2019 - x; 38 Pages Includes Refferences and Appendices
Abstract:
Background: Adequate utilization of antenatal care services is associated with improved maternal and neonatal health outcome. The World Health Organization recommends pregnant women to attend antenatal care service as early as in first trimester. However, many women due to various reasons fail to meet the recommendations.
Objectives: Was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with late antenatal booking among pregnant women at Sekoutoure regional hospital in Nyamagana district Mwanza Tanzania.
Methods: A hospital based cross sectional study that involved pregnant women was conducted from November 2018 to April 2019. Standardized questionnaires were used to obtain participants demographic characteristics and obstetrics history. Data analysis was done using (spss) and relationship between outcome variables and exposure variable was done using Chi-square test. Multivariate logistic regression will be used to measure the association.
Study rationale: The findings of the study will be helpful in developing strategies and recommendations that will assist and improve early antenatal care services.
Results: Among all women who were involved in the study, 23.8% of them booked at antenatal clinic in the first trimester, 57.9% booked in the second trimester, while 18.2% stated during their third trimester. Also on the reasons of the late antenatal care booking, 56% of the involved women had no genuine reason, 9.4% was due to poor cooperation of men in attending the clinic with their women, while 3.2% did not know at all the importance of early antenatal care booking.
Conclusion: This study attracts an attention that still the community needs to be educated on the importance of early antenatal care booking so as to help decreasing the number of maternal and newborn mortality and complications in Tanzania.
Also men need to be alerted that the matter of antenatal care is not the concern of women only, but also men are involved since men have been one of the hindrance factors.
--Obstetrics and Gynecology
Prevalence and Factors Associated with Late Antenatal Care Booking Among Pregnant Women Attending Sekoutoure Regional Hospital in Nyamagana, Mwanza, Tanzania. - Mwanza, Tanzania: Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences [CUHAS – Bugando] Phone: +255 28 298 3384 Fax: +255 28 298 3386 Email: vc@bugando.ac.tz Website: www.bugando.ac.tz © 2019 - x; 38 Pages Includes Refferences and Appendices
Abstract:
Background: Adequate utilization of antenatal care services is associated with improved maternal and neonatal health outcome. The World Health Organization recommends pregnant women to attend antenatal care service as early as in first trimester. However, many women due to various reasons fail to meet the recommendations.
Objectives: Was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with late antenatal booking among pregnant women at Sekoutoure regional hospital in Nyamagana district Mwanza Tanzania.
Methods: A hospital based cross sectional study that involved pregnant women was conducted from November 2018 to April 2019. Standardized questionnaires were used to obtain participants demographic characteristics and obstetrics history. Data analysis was done using (spss) and relationship between outcome variables and exposure variable was done using Chi-square test. Multivariate logistic regression will be used to measure the association.
Study rationale: The findings of the study will be helpful in developing strategies and recommendations that will assist and improve early antenatal care services.
Results: Among all women who were involved in the study, 23.8% of them booked at antenatal clinic in the first trimester, 57.9% booked in the second trimester, while 18.2% stated during their third trimester. Also on the reasons of the late antenatal care booking, 56% of the involved women had no genuine reason, 9.4% was due to poor cooperation of men in attending the clinic with their women, while 3.2% did not know at all the importance of early antenatal care booking.
Conclusion: This study attracts an attention that still the community needs to be educated on the importance of early antenatal care booking so as to help decreasing the number of maternal and newborn mortality and complications in Tanzania.
Also men need to be alerted that the matter of antenatal care is not the concern of women only, but also men are involved since men have been one of the hindrance factors.
--Obstetrics and Gynecology