Knowledge and Practice of Medical Abortion in Dadarbairiya VDC

Abstract

The study entitled "Knowledge and practice of Medical Abortion in DadarbairiyVDC ward no. 1" was conducted in Dadarbairiya VDC ward no. 1 of Morang district,some 12 km east from Biratnagar sub-metropolitan city. Medical Abortion is one of thealternativeways of terminating unwanted pregnacies; normally upto 12 weeks and inspecial cases upto 18 weeks. The main objectives of the study is to find out how muchknowledge do the people have about Medical Abortion and whether or not they utilize theservice ofMedical Abortion being discharged from the health post in their own locality.The study is done on the basis of primary sources of data. The data are collected from thestudy area especially of Dadarbairiya VDC ward no. 1, Morang. The study deals withsocio-economic and demographic characteristics of the married women of reproductiveage (15-49) years. The study has to examine the relationship between Medical Abortionand safe Motherhood. Total number of respondents (52) were sampled from ward no. 1 DadarbairiyaVDC, Morang. The purpose sampling techniques was employed in order to select therespondents. Therefore, all the respondents in this study were the women in age group 15to 49 years age. The study has revealed that 63 percent total respondents were literate and37 percent were illeterate. 9.61 percent respondents were found to complete primary leveleducation, 26.92 percent lower secondary level, 19.23 percent secondary level and 11.53percent were found to acquire the education of SLC and above. According to survey65.38 respondents knew about the legal provisions of the abortion. The mot shockingfinding of the study was 15.38 percent of the respondents still practising traditionalmethods of abortion. The percentage of respondents who went through Medical Abortionwas 19.23 and the surgical abortion the highest (30.76%) The highest percentage of therspondents visited hospitalfor the purpose of abortion (29.41%). Another upsetting finding of the study was sex-selective abortion and the percent wasthe highest (40%). Onthe other hand, the wonderful finding was that 60 percent of the respondents who practiedMedical Abortion received information and counselling before they practised it. Most ofthe respondents practised Medical Abortion for short term. 70 percent of the MedicalAbortion service receivers didn't visit the health post or the health centres for postabortion follow-ups. Only 3 percent out of 10 suffers from minor infections afterabortion. The result of the study shows that the government and the oter concernedstakeholders have to aunch the awareness programms in order to increase the knowledgeand practice of Medical Abortion needs to be discouraged urgently.