Utilization of Safe Motherhood Practice in Nepal A Study of Newar Community in Katunje Vdc of Bhaktapur District

Abstract

This study on "Utilization of Safe Motherhood Practice in Newar community inKatunje VDC was carried out by using the primary data collected in the fieldsurvey. The field survey covered one ward of Katunje VDC of Bhaktapur. 100married Newar women aged 15-49 years were selected under the simplerandom sampling. The main objected of this study was examine the level of utilization of safemotherhood practices. To find out the socio-economic and cultural determinateof safe motherhood. To examine about the knowledge of family planningdevices and its relationship with safe motherhood in Newar community. Theanalyses of data are based on percentage and number. In the Katunje, Katunje VDC, there are nine words; among them one ward isselected for this study. Total households are 160. Among them Newarhouseholds are 93 and total recorded population is 464, out of them 49.14 percent are male and 50.86 per cent are female and sex ratio is 96.6. The utilization of safe motherhood practice is closely associated withinformation education, communication, occupation, age at marriage,knowledge of family planning and contraceptives. All the elements used byNewar are low level in Katunje. So, utilization of safe motherhood practice isnot satisfactory.