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Compliance with iron folic acid (IFA) tablets and associated factors among pregnant women attending ante-natal care clinic at Sub District Hospital, Ballabgarh

INTRODUCTION: Anemia is a common public health problem among children, adolescent girls, women in reproductive age groups, pregnant and lactating women, with an estimated prevalence of 50.3% among pregnant women according to National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 4. Iron deficiency is regarded as the...

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Autores principales: Deori, Trideep J., Ramaswamy, Gomathi, Jaiswal, Abhishek, Loganathan, Vignesh, Kumar, Rakesh, Mahey, Reeta, Yadav, Kapil, Kant, Shashi
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8208205/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34195139
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1742_20
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author Deori, Trideep J.
Ramaswamy, Gomathi
Jaiswal, Abhishek
Loganathan, Vignesh
Kumar, Rakesh
Mahey, Reeta
Yadav, Kapil
Kant, Shashi
author_facet Deori, Trideep J.
Ramaswamy, Gomathi
Jaiswal, Abhishek
Loganathan, Vignesh
Kumar, Rakesh
Mahey, Reeta
Yadav, Kapil
Kant, Shashi
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description INTRODUCTION: Anemia is a common public health problem among children, adolescent girls, women in reproductive age groups, pregnant and lactating women, with an estimated prevalence of 50.3% among pregnant women according to National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 4. Iron deficiency is regarded as the most common cause of anemia among pregnant women globally and in India. This study was aimed to estimate the prevalence of compliance to iron folic acid (IFA) tablets among pregnant mothers attending ante-natal care (ANC) clinic in a Sub-district hospital (SDH) situated in north India and the various factors associated with non-compliance to IFA tablets. METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional facility-based study was conducted among pregnant women attending the ANC clinic at SDH, Ballabgarh. A pretested, semi-structured interview schedule was used to obtain socio-demographic data, information related to IFA therapy that they receive, their compliance and the factors that are related to missing of the doses. Data were entered using Epicollect 5 software and Stata version 13.0 was used for statistical analysis. RESULTS: A total of 484 pregnant women were enrolled in our study. More than 3/4(th) (77.1%) of the pregnant women were compliant to IFA tablet supplement given to them. The compliance was more in the study participants belonging to older age groups, lower socio-economic status and those with hemoglobin levels >11 gm/dl. The most common reason for non-compliance was found to be “forgetfulness” (63.0%) followed by “side effects” (49.5%). CONCLUSION: Compliance with IFA tablets was better among pregnant women who were non anemic and those with good compliance to IFA tablets had better hemoglobin levels.
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spelling pubmed-82082052021-06-29 Compliance with iron folic acid (IFA) tablets and associated factors among pregnant women attending ante-natal care clinic at Sub District Hospital, Ballabgarh Deori, Trideep J. Ramaswamy, Gomathi Jaiswal, Abhishek Loganathan, Vignesh Kumar, Rakesh Mahey, Reeta Yadav, Kapil Kant, Shashi J Family Med Prim Care Original Article INTRODUCTION: Anemia is a common public health problem among children, adolescent girls, women in reproductive age groups, pregnant and lactating women, with an estimated prevalence of 50.3% among pregnant women according to National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 4. Iron deficiency is regarded as the most common cause of anemia among pregnant women globally and in India. This study was aimed to estimate the prevalence of compliance to iron folic acid (IFA) tablets among pregnant mothers attending ante-natal care (ANC) clinic in a Sub-district hospital (SDH) situated in north India and the various factors associated with non-compliance to IFA tablets. METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional facility-based study was conducted among pregnant women attending the ANC clinic at SDH, Ballabgarh. A pretested, semi-structured interview schedule was used to obtain socio-demographic data, information related to IFA therapy that they receive, their compliance and the factors that are related to missing of the doses. Data were entered using Epicollect 5 software and Stata version 13.0 was used for statistical analysis. RESULTS: A total of 484 pregnant women were enrolled in our study. More than 3/4(th) (77.1%) of the pregnant women were compliant to IFA tablet supplement given to them. The compliance was more in the study participants belonging to older age groups, lower socio-economic status and those with hemoglobin levels >11 gm/dl. The most common reason for non-compliance was found to be “forgetfulness” (63.0%) followed by “side effects” (49.5%). CONCLUSION: Compliance with IFA tablets was better among pregnant women who were non anemic and those with good compliance to IFA tablets had better hemoglobin levels. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-05 2021-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8208205/ /pubmed/34195139 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1742_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
spellingShingle Original Article
Deori, Trideep J.
Ramaswamy, Gomathi
Jaiswal, Abhishek
Loganathan, Vignesh
Kumar, Rakesh
Mahey, Reeta
Yadav, Kapil
Kant, Shashi
Compliance with iron folic acid (IFA) tablets and associated factors among pregnant women attending ante-natal care clinic at Sub District Hospital, Ballabgarh
title Compliance with iron folic acid (IFA) tablets and associated factors among pregnant women attending ante-natal care clinic at Sub District Hospital, Ballabgarh
title_full Compliance with iron folic acid (IFA) tablets and associated factors among pregnant women attending ante-natal care clinic at Sub District Hospital, Ballabgarh
title_fullStr Compliance with iron folic acid (IFA) tablets and associated factors among pregnant women attending ante-natal care clinic at Sub District Hospital, Ballabgarh
title_full_unstemmed Compliance with iron folic acid (IFA) tablets and associated factors among pregnant women attending ante-natal care clinic at Sub District Hospital, Ballabgarh
title_short Compliance with iron folic acid (IFA) tablets and associated factors among pregnant women attending ante-natal care clinic at Sub District Hospital, Ballabgarh
title_sort compliance with iron folic acid (ifa) tablets and associated factors among pregnant women attending ante-natal care clinic at sub district hospital, ballabgarh
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8208205/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34195139
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1742_20
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