Assessment of Antenatal Check-up among Pregnant Women Delivering in Obstetrics & Gynaecology Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital of Jharkhand

Dr. Swati Shikha; Dr.Abhishek Kumar; Dr.Vivek Kashyap; Dr. S.P. Singh

Volume : VIII, Issue : II, February - 2019

Assessment of Antenatal Check-up among Pregnant Women Delivering in Obstetrics & Gynaecology Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital of Jharkhand

Dr. Swati Shikha, Dr. Abhishek Kumar, Dr. Vivek Kashyap, Dr. S. P. Singh

Abstract :

Background:Antenatal check up (ANC) is imperative for the timely diagnosis and treatment of pregnancy related morbidities.Good and timely ANC is a vital component for the safe motherhood and child survival. The study aims to describe the socio demographic profile & to assess the ANC Status and degree of acceptance of different services given in ANC among pregnant women.Methods: This was a cross sectional hospital based study done in Obs. &Gynae. department of RIMS, Ranchi for a duration of 3 months. All pregnant women admitted for delivery in Obs. & Gynae. department, RIMS, Ranchi during our data collection period were selected randomly from five units. Total sample size during this period came out to be 163. Templates were generated in MS excel sheet and data analysis was done using SPSS software (version20.0).Results: After analysis of 163 subjects, it was found that about half (50.6%) of the patients were from rural background with non tribal ethnicity (68.11%). ANC registration was found in 98.1% of women and 34.4% women have more than four ANC visits. Conclusions: Majority of the women were taking ANC visits and getting iron supplementation with TT injection