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KMID : 0438219770140030503
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Korea University Medical Journal
1977 Volume.14 No. 3 p.503 ~ p.515
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A Study on the Delivery Milieu in Keum-San Gun Area
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高炳勳/Kho, Byung Hoon
金聖子/Kim, Seong Ja
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Abstract
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This study focusing on family planning, induced abortion, delivery milieu including prenatal care, places of delivery, attendants at delivery and tools used to cut umbilical cord, and registration of birth was conducted on 1,198 women aged 20-44 who had experienced deliveries and 1, 138 deliveries done during the period of 5 years from 1970 to 1974.
The results obtained from the study for 2 months of June and July in 1975, in Keum-San Gun, Chungcheongnam Do were abstracted as follow.
1) Of all respondents the group aged 35-39 years was the most frequent one (27.5%) and the one aged 20-24 years was the least (5.7%).
2) Regarding the respondents´ and their husbands´ educational back ground, the majority (62.4% and 56.8% respectively) had received primary school.
The mean educational level of respondents´ husbands was a little higher than that of respondents.
3) Most of the respondents´ husbands (80.4%) in the study area were engaged in agriculure.
4) The ideal number of sons and daughters averaged 2.1 and 1.6 respectively. However the ava-
rage number of pregnancies was 4.7.
5) The mean general fertility rate of the period of 5 years from 1970 to 1974 was 190.0.
6) The proportion approving of family planning was 84.7% and among them the current contraceptive use rate was 49.6%.
7) The largest proportion (30.5%) of respondents currently used contraception used IUDs.
8) Of all respondents who had experienced pregnancy in the past, 19.8% stated that they had experienced induced abortion.
9) The percentage of deliveries received prenatal care at medical facilities was 33.4% (16.5% at health center, 10.9% at clinics and 6.0% at midwife´s home).
10) The rate of receiving prenatal care was increased in accordance with educational level of the respondents.
11) Of all deliveries, 97.3 % was reported to have been delivered at home, while only 2.7% were delivered at a hospital or a midwife´s home.
12) The percentage of deliveries attended by medical personnel was 9.8 % (5.8% by physicians
and 3.8% by midwives).
13) For severing the umbilical cUd, sterilized scissors acre used by 37.5.~ of respondents. unsterilized sewing scissors were most frequently used (by 52.4%) as a tool for cutting umbilical cord.
14) Only 29.21,1. of parents registered the birth of their children within 14 days after birth and 51.3% within a month.
15) The rate of registration of birth was not correlated with the educational level of respondents and their husbands.
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