Knowledge and Practice of Safe Motherhood services (A Case Study of Manakamana Vdc in Gorkha District)

Abstract

This study is based on the primary data of Manakamana VDC wards 1, 2, 3 and 5, itcovers 125 married women of reproductive ages 15-49 years. The objectives of the study are to access the knowledge and practice of safe motherand to identity the socio-economic characteristics of safemotherhood and to identifythe socio-economic characteristics of women, practices of safe motherhood aboutpregnancy delivery and postnatal care. In this study among the 125 respondents more than 28 percent are Brahmin/Chhetri,57 percent are Newer and therest are Janajaties. Similarly, 96 percent are Hindu and2 percent are Christian. More than 73 percent of respondents are found literate and 26percent are illiterate. Most of the respondents are engaged in agriculture. About 82 percent of respondents have knowledge about ANC services and 74 percentof respondents had regular check up during pregnancy. Birth delivered at home ishigh in the area of study, 59 percent respondents had delivered at home, and 43percent had delivered at hospital and 6 percent had delivered at private clinic. More than 80 percent mothers have knowledge about use of safe delivery kit, andTBAS, FCHV are also found to helping use of safe delivery kit. Thus, this study found that education caste/ethnicity occupation; income of householdare important variables in determining knowledge and practice of safe motherhood.