Why women choose to give birth at home: a situational analysis from urban slums of Delhi

Devasenapathy, Niveditha; George, Mathew Sunil; Jerath, Suparna Ghosh; Singh, Archna; Negandhi, Himanshu; Alagh, Gursimran; Shankar, Anuraj H.; Zodpey, Sanjay

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“…The survey included participants who had given birth in the previous 5 years. Moreover, the current study setting in the national capital of India has a better infrastructure, such as more health facilities and better accessibility to them, which may act as a promotional factor for institutional delivery [17][18][19]. A survey conducted by the Government of India (District Level Health Survey-3) included information for births in the previous 2 years and another study showed a more or less similar prevalence for the State of Delhi, India (current study area) [17,20].…”

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Do socio-demographic factors still predict the choice of place of delivery: A cross-sectional study in rural North India

Sahoo

Singh

Gupta

et al. 2015

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Improving maternal health is one of the goals to be achieved under the Millennium Development Goal (MDG), especially MDG-5. One of the predictors of maternal health is place of child birth. This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of home delivery and different socio-demographic factors associated with them. This study was a community-based cross-sectional study. Women who delivered a baby in the past 1 year were included in this study. A total of 300 women responded (93.2%) and gave consent to participate in the study. Prevalence of home delivery was 37.7%. Bivariate analysis showed that religion, caste, education of women and their partners, occupation of the spouse, monthly family income and socioeconomic status had a significant association with the choice of place of delivery. But multivariate regression analysis showed only religion, caste, education of spouse and monthly income to be significant factors in determining place of delivery. The findings of this study suggest that individual countries have to formulate interventions which will target marginalized or vulnerable populations with reference to caste, religion and wealth. A significant improvement in reaching the 5th MDG can be achieved if the first three MDG goals are focused on, i.e., eradication of poverty, achieving universal education and women empowerment.

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Do socio-demographic factors still predict the choice of place of delivery: A cross-sectional study in rural North India

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“…4 Many measures are being taken to increase the institutional delivery in India; but, some studies still report home deliveries occurring in rural and urban poor families. [5][6][7][8] According to UNICEF estimates, the institutional delivery rates are 90.9%. The remaining 9.1% are deliveries at home.…”

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Evaluation of Calf circumference as a procedure to screen low birth weight babies: a hospital based cross sectional study

Sheikh¹,

Thakre²,

Thakre³

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Int J Contemp Pediatr

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Background: In spite of the interventions being taken, low birth weight still persists as a public health problem in low and middle-income countries. World Health Organization defines low birth weight as birth weight less than 2500 gm. There is a constant search to find newer methods to detect low birth weight babies so that early methods can be instituted. This study was conducted to evaluate calf circumference as procedure to screen low birth weight babies in tertiary care hospital in Nagpur. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in tertiary care hospital of Nagpur, Maharashtra for a period of 4 months. The study subjects were babies delivered at the hospital. Birth weight was recorded using a digital weighing scale within 24 hours of the delivery. Length, calf circumference, head and chest circumference were measured according to standard guidelines. Results: Majority of mothers were in the age group of 20 to 24 years of age group, were educated up to primary school and belonged to Hindu religion. The mean calf circumference of low birth weight babies was 9.64±1.13 cm and was 10.96±1.01 cm in normal weight babies. The mean values of calf circumference were significantly lower in low birth weight babies (p <0.001). The sensitivity and specificity for the best cut off of calf circumference was found to be 89.97% and 42.86% respectively.Conclusions: Measuring calf circumference was found to be a good test with higher sensitivity but lower specificity. Hence, calf circumference can be used as an alternative method to screen babies born in remote areas, where the facility of weighing the baby at birth is not available.

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“…This phenomenon, admitted by all stakeholder accounts for poor focused care as health staff are overburdened, with often reported episodes of health staff unfriendliness. Similar evidence from this study finding is documented (d ' Ambruoso et al, 2005;Devasenapathy et al, 2014;Larson, Hermosilla, Kimweri, Mbaruku, & Kruk, 2014;WHO, 2014). Improvements in these areas need multiple targeted responses.…”

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“…Women in such family settings often lack knowledge about the risk associated with their intentions on avoiding maternal care. This finding is similar to a study among Indian women who shyed away from health staff in order to hide their parity desires from clinic staff (Devasenapathy et al, 2014). Additionally, among economically empowered women, the burden of economic, child caring and reproductive role expectations for women may cause delays for maternity care utilization.…”

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Unmet reproductive health care needs among rural Ghanaian women

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Why women choose to give birth at home: a situational analysis from urban slums of Delhi

Cited by 45 publications

References 24 publications

Do socio-demographic factors still predict the choice of place of delivery: A cross-sectional study in rural North India

Do socio-demographic factors still predict the choice of place of delivery: A cross-sectional study in rural North India

Evaluation of Calf circumference as a procedure to screen low birth weight babies: a hospital based cross sectional study

Unmet reproductive health care needs among rural Ghanaian women

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