A Study on Maternal and Child Health Care Practices of Dhupoo VDC, Shankhuwa Sava District
Date
2011
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Faculty of Education
Abstract
The study, “Maternal and Child Health Care Practices: A Study below of 5 years child
in Dhupoo VDC, Shankhuwa Sava District" has been carried out to assess the health
care practices of a rural area of Nepal. It tries to find out the socioeconomic and
demographic characteristics; to assess the antenatal care, delivery and postnatal care
practices; and to examine the practice of colostrums feeding, breastfeeding, child
immunization, and additional food feeding by rural women.
A total of 120 respondent mothers were interviewed on maternal and child health
care, and 36 respondents were taken for focus group discussion. For key informant
interview, the chairperson of health post, volunteers, social worker, TBA, etc., were
consulted. Therefore population of study area is 120.
In the study area, ages of the respondents are between 15-45 years. Among them,
29.16(35) percent women were married at early age (15-20 years), and literacy rate of
the women has been found satisfactory. 75% respondents are landless and most of the
respondents are housewives. Regarding health care practices, around 90 percent of the
respondents were found that they go for health checkup during pregnancy, and
56.86% of the total mothers have taken more than two doses of TT injection during
their pregnancy period.
The study has confirmed that around 68.33% of the mothers delivered their babies in
hospital and 31.67% mothers delivered at their own homes. All of the respondents had
fed colostrums and 73.34% respondents have breastfed for more than two years.
Overall, although the findings suggest that these practices are satisfactory from a
national level point of view, their performance can be said below par if we compare it
to other villages. Women's social status, unavailability of infrastructure, weak
awareness's transmission along with their low economic and political status as well as
their occupations is seen to be responsible for their somewhat low performance on
maternal and child health care
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Child Health Care, Care Practices, Maternal, Child immunization