Maternal health care practice and education Status of rai women (A case study of rai community in chhinamakhu Vdc,Bhojpur district)

Abstract

This study on "Maternal health care practice and education status inRai community in Chhinamakhu VDC, Bhojpur" was carried out by usingthe primary data collected in the field survey. The filed survey coveredselected wards 2 and 9 of Chhinamakhu VDC of Bhojpur and 110 marriedwomen aged 15-49 years were selected under the purposive sampling. The main objective of this study was to examine the relationshipbetween maternal health care practices and educational status in Raicommunity. The relationship between two or more variables has beenexamined through cross tabulation. The main determinant for this research is antenatal check-ups, TTinjection, receiving iron tablets, delivery assistance, use of delivery kit andpostnatal check-ups. The study included 512 populations from 110 households whichconsisted 47.9 percent males and 52.1 percent females. The study showsthat most of the households were involved in agriculture. In the study, 54.5 percent respondents were literate. Higherpercentages of respondents were in the age group 25-29 years. The studyshows that 53.6 percent respondentshave knowledge about antenatal care. According to study, 86.4 percent respondents received ANC serviceand higher percent of respondents received ANC from the health post. In thestudy 83 percent literate respondents received ANC services. In the study, 51.8 percent respondents received TT injection, 52.7percent have taken iron tablets. In the study 79.1 percent respondentsdelivered their babies at home, 20 percent respondents used clean deliverykit. In the study area, 67.3 percent respondents received postnatal careservices and higher percentages (86.5%) of respondents received postnatalcare from health post. This study found a strong positive relationship between education andmaternal health care practices. There was significant relationship betweenreceiving iron tablets, TT injection and age at marriage, level of education ofrespondents.