Assessment of Reproductive Health Services in Selected Community Clinics

DOI

10.2991/ahsr.k.200723.052How to use a DOI?

Keywords

assessment, reproductive health, FP methods

Abstract

To assess the utilization of reproductive health services. This was a cross-sectional descriptive study conducted with both qualitative and quantitative approach from January to December 2014 by interviewing 100 service receivers and 10 service providers of 10 community clinic of Cox’s Bazar sadar upazilla It was observed that community clinics (CCs) used by the 72% female health seeker where 50% of them were housewife. About the knowledge of family planning (FP) methods, 72% know and 28% do not know about it. Among 28% who did not received FP methods 7.14% don’t know about the CCs, 42.85% don’t know about the given services and 50% didn’t received the service due to shame. It has been found that, Immunization of 15-49 years female, antenatal and postnatal care was found 100% & only one CC had facility of emergency obstetric care. Nutritional and immunization service for children was 100% and literate person knows about FP methods were 95.4%. The significant relationship was found between educational status and knowledge about FP method, X2 = 50.375; P value-.000 which was <.05. Reproductive health services in CCs were found satisfactory. All the CCs were providing antenatal care which was a very promising sign. Maximum respondents had knowledge about the FP methods but maximum women don’t use any contraceptive. So this was a big problem for the policy makers who worked to reduce our population.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Umme Asma Abshari
AU  - Sohel Rana
AU  - Cecep Heriana
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/07/24
TI  - Assessment of Reproductive Health Services in Selected Community Clinics
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Science, Health, Economics, Education and Technology (ICoSHEET 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 207
EP  - 211
SN  - 2468-5739
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DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200723.052
ID  - Abshari2020
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