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Figure 3: Grouped bar chart showing frequency of ANC visits attendances by 35% 30% 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% 5% Not attended ANC mothers ( n = 400) 2% 8.8% The above figure shows that the highest attendances made by pregnant women were four (4) visits. This is equivalent to 119[29.8%] of the respondents. It indicates that most mothers do not have regular visits thus liable of missing important information concerning their health status. 29.3% 29.8% 25 13.3% 6.5% 1.8% 1.8% 2.1% Once 2 visitis 3 visitis 4 visits 5 visits 6 visits 7 visits 8 visits 9 visits
Introduction FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSION RESULTS Focus group discussion was conducted in eight (8) villages, which were selected for study. Respondents included village leaders and influential people, women groups and health workers. These groups were arranged by village executive officers (VEO). Groups had mixed participants women and male with the exception of women group, which comprised of women of bearing age. Groups were made of 8 participants. Themes for FGD: - Knowledge on antenatal services - Reasons for not delivering in health units - Reasons for home deliveries Respondents from village leaders and influential people About 5(62.5%) from five villages were found knowledgeable on antenatal services given to pregnant mothers, while 37.5% had no knowledge on Ante-natal services. All 8(100%) groups said pregnant women should deliver in health unit. Reasons given for not delivering in health units are: - High cost was found to be the prominent cause mentioned by all groups 8 (100%) this involved also traveling costs purchasing delivery equipments and referral costs. - Sudden onset of labor was mentioned by 3 (37.5%) as the second cause of home delivery - Lack of awareness of women on health unit's delivery was another cause of low health unit delivery by 3 groups (37.5%) of the respondents - Poor knowledge of health workers in predicting precisely the date of delivery and unfavourable languages from health workers was mentioned by 3 (37.5%) of the respondents. 26
Page 1 and 2: PRIMARY HEALTH CARE INSTITUTE - IRI
Page 3 and 4: DEDICATION I dedicate this work to
Page 5 and 6: TABLE OF CONTENTS SUBJECT PAGE Decl
Page 7 and 8: LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Distributio
Page 9 and 10: ABREVIATIONS ANC - Ante-Natal Care
Page 11 and 12: ABSTRACT Health unit delivery is a
Page 13 and 14: Globally Safe Mother Hood Initiativ
Page 15 and 16: and delivery in Health units for pr
Page 17 and 18: 2.0. LITRATURE REVIEW CHAPTER TWO S
Page 19 and 20: Several other studies have been don
Page 21 and 22: 3.0. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1. STUD
Page 23 and 24: 3.4. STUDY POPULATION The populatio
Page 25 and 26: The processed data was analyzed man
Page 27 and 28: 4.0. RESEARCH FINDINGS CHAPTER FOUR
Page 29 and 30: Table 5: Distribution of respondent
Page 31 and 32: Table 8: Distribution of Respondent
Page 33 and 34: The table above shows that women wh
Page 35: Table 14: Reasons given by mothers
Page 39 and 40: Focus group discussion with health
Page 41 and 42: Social Economic/Cultural factors ar
Page 43 and 44: HEALTH EDUCATION MODEL 5.3.THEORETI
Page 45 and 46: To reduce the complications that ap
Page 47 and 48: People will only perform a given be
Page 49 and 50: BIBLIOGRAPHY Ahmad Z. et al (1998).
Page 51 and 52: Ladfors L. et al (2001). A populati
Page 53 and 54: Walraven et al (2000) Maternal mort
Page 55 and 56: 8. How long does it take you to rea
Page 57 and 58: ANNEX 2 FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSION FOR
Page 59 and 60: ANNEX 2: QUESTIONS FOR FOCUS GROUP
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