Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics of Pregnant Women Seeking Antenatal Care in Beni-Suef Governorate

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Obstetrics and Gynecology department, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University

2 Public Health and Community Medicine department, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University.

3 Family Medicine department, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University.

4 Psychiatry Department, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University.

Abstract

Pregnancy is an important time to prepare women and their families psychologically and emotionally for parenthood. Antenatal care (ANC) is defined as the care provided by skilled health-care providers to pregnant women to ensure the best health conditions for both mother and baby during pregnancy. Objective: is to study the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of pregnant women seeking antenatal care in Beni-Suef Governorate. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study conducted over a period of ten months(from April 2021 to January 2022), on 434 pregnant women attending for antenatal checkups at the ANC clinic of Beni-Suef University Hospital and 6 primary health care facilities which were randomly selected: El-kom El-ahmar, El mermah health care centers, El Ghamrawy and Sharq El-Nile health offices in Beni-Suef city, Bani-adi primary health care center and Naser health office from Naser City. A self-structured questionnaire prepared in Arabic language was used. Results: Pregnant women utilizing antenatal care services were mainly in the age group 20-35 (78.6%), had preuniversity and university education (34.3%) and (30.0%), respectively. Three quarters of the pregnant women had a complicated previous pregnancy with abortion (73.9%), around one-half of them had previously delivered by cesarean section (48.2%). Pregnant women seeking ANC were mainly in the third trimester (53%), most of them had a planned pregnancy (68%) and the largest percentage of the studied women were multigravida (59.4 %) with a mean equal 2.9 ±1.8 SD. Conclusion and Recommendation: There should be proper health care programs for pregnant women with health education about ANC services all through the gestation period

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Egyptian Journal of Medical Research
Volume 4, Issue 2
April 2023
Pages 92-103

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