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Use of Obstetric Services in Rural Nigeria

Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria

The pattern and determinants of maternal service utilization were studied in a rural Nigerian community. The study sample consisted of 488 randomly selected women who had a child birth or an abortion between May 1987 and September 1989. Although 93% registered for prenatal care in a health care institution, only 51 % delivered in a health institution while 49% delivered at home mainly under the care of traditional birth attendants. Factors found to be most consistently associ ated with the use of health institutions for delivery were maternal education and occupation, religion, and occupation of the husband. Maternal age, parity and marital status and place of the residence were not significantly associated with the choice between home and institutional delivery.

Logistic regression analysis was used to determine the odds ratio and to quantify the weight of these independent variables found to be significantly associated with the place of delivery as the outcome variable.

The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, Vol. 114, No. 3, 132-136 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/146642409411400304


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