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Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
Categories
3. Fertility, Fecundity, Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights
Abstract
Disrespect and abuse treatment during childbirth in health facilities is a burning issue all over the world. The
prevalence of disrespect and abuse varies from 15% to 98% all over the world. Every third woman who opts for
institutional delivery experienced any kind of mistreatment The present study aims to find the prevalence of
disrespectful maternity care during ANC services and its correlates in Balrampur district, Uttar Pradesh, India.
The present study is a cross-sectional, community-based study based on 384 women selected through multistage
clustering sampling. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression were used to full fill the objectives.
Results indicate that nearly 60% of women experienced disrespect and abuse during ANC services utilization.
About 18% of women reported that the health providers were rude to them. Also, 1.5% of women reported
that health providers used abusive language during the ANC services utilization. Women aged 25-34 and 35+ were
54 % and 69 % less likely to experience disrespect and abuse respectively than women aged 15-24. Low odds of
disrespect and abuse were associated with other backward, and upward caste than the women belongs to
Scheduled tribe/caste.
Every woman has the right to receive kind and respectful maternity care, and mistreatment during maternal care
services remains hindrances to achieving safe motherhood and child care
1447 The Desire for Children and Its Linkages between Sex Preference and C-Section
delivery
Ruchita Sakpal
International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India
Categories
3. Fertility, Fecundity, Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights
Abstract
The pregnancy immediately following C-section delivery could be life-threatening. Yet, some women wish to have
additional children. So, it is quite pertinent to know is this desire governed by the sex preference? Hence, to
examine the linkages between sex composition and desire for having additional children after C-section delivery in
India, the NFHS 2015-16 data has been used. The present study uses bivariate and multivariate analysis to find out
the determinants of desire for additional children for women with different sex composition after C-section. The
desire for an additional child is most influential in Women having one female child than one male child. Among
women having two female children, the desire to have more children showed the same trend of high as women
with one female child, regardless of type of delivery (38 percent C-section & 63 percent normal delivery) women
with two female children vs. (10 percent C-section & 22 percent normal delivery) women with two male children)).
The results from the bivariate analysis with socio-demographic variables indicate that in the Northern region of
India, the woman with two female children who undergone C-section showed a higher desire to have more children
than their normal delivery counterparts.
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