Maternal Health Care Practice and educational Status of Women (A Case Study of Budhathum VDC, Dhading)

Abstract

This study on "Maternal health care practice and educational status of women" in Budhathum VDC Dhading, was carried out by using the primary data collected in the field survey. The field survey covered selected wards-4, 5 and 8 of Budhathum VDC of Dhading and 120 married women age 15-49 years were selected under the purposive sampling. The main objective of this study was to identify the demographic and socio-economic status of women at age group 15-49 years. To analyze the situation of maternal health care practices among women of reproductive age in the study area. To analyze the relationship between women's education and utilization of maternal health care services in the study area. The main dependent variables for this research is antenatal checkup, TT injection, receiving iron tablets, delivery assistance, use of delivery kit and post natal checkups. This study included 529 people from 120 households which consisted 47.9 percent males and 52.1 percent females. The study shows that most of the households were involved in agriculture. In the study, 79.77 percent respondents were literate. Higher percentage of respondents were in the age group 30-34 years. The study shows that 43.33 percent respondents have knowledge about ANC. According to study, higher percentage of respondents received ANC from the health post. In the study 83 percent literate respondents received ANC services. v 6 In the study, 48.34 percent respondents received TT injection 55 percent have taken iron tablet. In the study 70 percent respondents delivered their babies at home, 20 percent respondents used cleandelivery kit. In the study area, 24.16 percent respondents received post natal care services and higher percentage 58.62 of respondent received postnatal care from health post. This study found a strong positive relationship between education and maternal health care practices. There was significant relationship between receiving iron tablets, TT injection and age at marriage, level of education of respondents.