To assess reproductive health status of rural women residing at loni (BK) village

Abstract

Reproductive health represents the overall health condition of a population. Demographic profile of women in Reproductive age (15-45) and children (under 15 years) consisting 60% of the Indian population, in this population assumes that two thirds of our population are vulnerable to ill health and death. Prioritizing women’s health helps achievement of the fourth and fifth goals of Millennium Development Program. Aim: The aim of this study is to assess the reproductive health status of women and to correlate the reproductive health status with selected socio demographic variable. Methods: A community based, cross sectional survey by probability simple random sampling technique use to conduct study. Sample of 250 participants were involved in the pre-test structure interview schedule. Analysis of tool consist of Section A - Socio demographic data of women and their partner, section B - Gynaec and Obstatric History, section C: Contraceptive history section D: Menstrual history , section D: sexual history and section E: Clinical examination. The collected data analyzed by using descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation (SD) and mean percent for continuous variables; and frequency, percentage for categorical variables. The inferential statistics like chi square test used to find association between the variables. The p value (p<0.05) was considered statistically significant level. The statistical software SPSS version 10 was used for the data analysis. Results: The present study found that health awareness was less and contraceptive knowledge factors were better among rural reproductive women. Out of 250 study subjects, nearly half had knowledge about care during pregnancy, in rural area. Knowledge on safe abortion found less good.