Factors Associated With The Use Of Maternity Services

Factors Associated With The Use Of Maternity Services

Abstract

The motherly mortality rate and other motherly health pointers are worse for developing countries than for the advanced world due to bettered access to quality care during gestation and especially at delivery in the bucolic world. This study was carried out to identify the factors which told choice of place of delivery by pregnant women in Enugu, southeastern Nigeria, and to recommend ways to ameliorate women’s access to professed attendants at delivery. Apre-tested questionnaire was administered by canvassers to women who had delivered within 3 months previous to date of data collection. The response rate was75.5( n = 1098). Of the repliers,52.9 delivered outside health institutions and47.1 in health institutions. The major factors impacting choice of place of delivery included promptitude of care, capability of midwife/ croaker , affordability, health education, 24 h presence of croakers , platoon work among croakers and presence of specialist obstetricians. There were statistically significant associations between choice of institutional ornon-institutional deliveries and socio- demographic/ profitable factors similar as place of hearthstone( civic/ pastoral), religion, educational status, lineage, connubial status, occupational position, hubby’s occupational and educational situations, age and equality( p<0.05). We conclude that factors which will appreciatively impact women to deliver in health institutions in Enugu, Nigeria include a variety of interacting social, profitable and health system factors, which operate at colorful situations- the ménage, community, the health institutions and the larger social and political terrain. Attention to these factors won’t only ameliorate motherliness application but, hopefully, also will reduce the high motherly mortality and ameliorate other motherly health pointers in the study area.