Quality of antenatal care at outpatient department of Mandalay General Hospital: time utilization and satisfaction among users

The study was a hospital-based cross-sectional survey using recording and interviewing techniques. Average waiting time (in minutes) before seeing registration clerk, nurses, laboratory staff and medical doctors, for all first visit and follow-up visit patients, were 10,5,8 and 31 respectively. Average time in contact (in minutes) with registration clerk, nurses, laboratory staff and medical doctors, for all patients, were 2,2,11 and 3 respectively. Among first visit patients, only 21 per cent were told of their body weights, 21 per cent were told of their blood pressures, 66 per cent were told of their urine examination results, and 64 per cent were told of their baby's clinical conditions. Similar figures for follow-up patients were, 29 per cent 26 per cent, 83 per cent and 80 per cent respectively at different service point. The types of service offered and the training and performance of the service providers can be concluded as from being adequate.

A preliminary study of the reproductive profile of Myanmar women

The purpose of the study is to know the reproductive profile of Myanmar women. A cross-sectional descriptive study of reproductive profile of 898 pregnant women who attended the antenatal clinic of Mandalay General Hospital is performed. The 898 patients studied are in the age range of 15 to 43, the commonest age distribution of patients being 20 to 24 and 25 to 29 years age group each comprising 22.5 percent of the study population. The main drainage area of the study population is the suburban area of the Mandalay City while a minority of women were referred cases form the nearby townships. The social and economic condition of the study population is uniformly low with income ranging between K. 1000 and 3000 and the type of work from hawkers, labourers, daily-wagers and some farmers. The age of marriage of the study group ranges 12 to 42 years; the most frequent age of marriage being between 17 and 20 (44.9 percent). The number of children desired by the majority of patients (44 percent) is three. Only one hundred and twelve out of 898 patients had experience with contraception, mainly oral contraceptive pills and progestogen injection. Five hundred and sixty patients out of 898 intended to practice contraception after the current pregnancy, 238 by progestogen injection and 270 by tubal ligation, 155 oral contraceptive pills. Three hundred and thirty eight patients had no intention of using any contraception.