Evaluation of cases of prenatal care received by women who have given birth; [Doǧum yapan kadinlarin doǧum öncesi bakim alma durumlarinin deǧerlendirilmesi]

Özbaşaran F.; Yanikkerem E.

Evaluation of cases of prenatal care received by women who have given birth; [Doǧum yapan kadinlarin doǧum öncesi bakim alma durumlarinin deǧerlendirilmesi]

Date

2004

Authors

Özbaşaran F.

Yanikkerem E.

Abstract

This study is which is cross-sectional, descriptive and analytic type; was done to determine the cases of prenatal care received by the women who gave birth in Manisa Maternity Hospital and Celal Bayar University Hospital in December 2002 and their willingness about their last pregnancy. This questionnaire which consisted of the questions about socio-demographic characteristics, prolificacy story, use of family plan methods, voluntaries of pregnancy and prenatal care received was applied to the women who had given birth through the face-to-face interview method. During the working hours (on Mondays and Wednesdays) the 151 women who could be reached before they were discharged form the hospital were interviewed with. The data were evaluated by SPSS for Windows version 9.0 statistics program. The average age of the women was 25.20 ± 4.96(16-42). 60% of them were primary school graduates; 83. 4% not working, 63.6% nucleus family, 36.4% large family, 16.6% having a relative husband, 50.3% having given normal birth, 49.7% caesarian birth, 14.6% of the pregnancies were not volunteered at all, 14.6% of the were not planned and a result of wrong timing. The women's primary reason of not wanting pregnancies is economical (31.8%). 13.2% of the babies born are 2500 gr. and less than that. 34.4% of the women were using a family planning method during their pregnancies. The most widely used method was withdrawal. 13.5% said that they got pregnant despite using Ria, 13.5% oral contraceptive, 7.9% condom. Only 49% of the women used a family planning method so far. 63.6% of the women decided what method to use as postnatal family planning. Ria comes as number one method preferred by 62.5% of the women. The mean of the weeks when the women noticed their pregnancies is 6.50±4.50 (2-29). The mean of the weeks when women had their first pregnancy check-up is 10.72±6.61 (0-40). The mean of the cigarettes smoked daily by the smoking women is 5.32 ± 4.34 (1-20). The rate of the women who didn't receive any prenatal controls during their pregnancies is 14.6%. The place where they had their controls most is local health center. The controls are measuring the blood pressure, weight control and FHc control respectively. The Subjects they received most education about are prenatal diet and tetanus vaccine. In our study, we have found out that women are lacking in information about prenatal period and family planning.