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KMID : 0377619830450050347
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1983 Volume.45 No. 5 p.347 ~ p.357
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A Study on Status of Maternal Health in a Health Center
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to identify the maternal characteristics which influenced on prenatal care and the places of delivery. The respondents were 204 mothers who had their infants registered in a health center.
Data, which were already computerized, were collected from Dec. 1, 1982 to Dec. 28, 1982 through prepared questionnaires and interviews.
The results were as follows:
1. Mothers who received prenatal care occupied 88.7% and mothers who did not it occupied 11. 3%.
1) 56.2% of the mothers of prenatal care received first prenatal care during the first trimester, 17.7% of them during the second and 14.8% of them during the third trimester. The higher the educational background was, the younger the mother´s age was and the fewer the number of delivery were, the earlier they visited to the prenatal clinic. (p<0.05 Cramer´s V=0.212) (p<0.05 Cramer´s V=0.222) (p<0.01 Cramer´s V=0.297)
2) Of the mothers who received prenatal care, Average number of visiting to the prenatal clinic was 4. 6 times per pregnancy. one to two times occupied 27. 9%, three to four times 19.6%, five to six times 14.2% and above 7 times occupied 27.0%.
The higher the educational background was and the fewer the number of delivery were, the more times they visited to the prenatal clinic. (p<0.01 Cramer´s V=0.259) (p<0.01 Cramer´s V=0.235)
3) Places of prenatal care; 76.2% of them received the prenatal care in hospital, 12.4% of them in health center or midwifery facilities.
The higher the educational background was and the fewer the number of delivery were, the higher the rate of prenatal care in hospital they received. (p<0. 01 Contingency Coefficient=0.289 (p<0. 01 Contingency Coefficient=0.326)
2. 67.6% of the mothers who received prenatal care delivered in hospital 13.3% of them delivered at the midwifery facilities and 19: 1% of them delivered at home. The higher the educational background was and the fewer the number of delivery
were, the higher the rate of hospital delivery was (P<0.01 Contingency Coefficient=0.294)(P<0.01 Contingency Coefficient=0.313)
3. Only 28. 1% of the respondants had knowledge of prenatal care in health center and 71.9% of them had not one
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