Assessment Of Antenatal Check-Up Among Pregnant Women Delivering In Obstetrics & Gynaecology Department Of A Tertiary Care Hospital Of Jharkhand

ABSTRACT

Background:Antenatal check up (ANC) is imperative for the timely diagnosis and treatment of pregnancy related morbidities.Good and timely ANC is a vital component for the safe motherhood and child survival. The study aims to describe the socio demographic prole & to assess the ANC Status and degree of acceptance of different services given in ANC among pregnant women.Methods: This was a cross sectional hospital based study done in Obs. &Gynae. department of RIMS, Ranchi for a duration of 3 months. All pregnant women admitted for delivery in Obs. & Gynae. department, RIMS, Ranchi during our data collection period were selected randomly from ve units. Total sample size during this period came out to be 163. Templates were generated in MS excel sheet and data analysis was done using SPSS software (version20.0).Results: After analysis of 163 subjects, it was found that about half (50.6%) of the patients were from rural background with non tribal ethnicity (68.11%). ANC registration was found in 98.1% of women and 34.4% women have more than four ANC visits. Conclusions: Majority of the women were taking ANC visits and getting iron supplementation with TTinjection.