Postnatal care services use by mothers: A comparative study of defaulters versus attendees of postnatal clinics in Enugu.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Despite much emphasis on the reproductive health of women, maternal mortality is still high, especially in postnatal period.

Objective

To assess the prevalence of postnatal care use and reasons for defaults among mothers attending the child immunization clinics in Enugu, Nigeria.

Methods

This was a cross-sectional comparative study of 400 consecutive nursing mothers who presented at the Institute of Child Health of UNTH and ESUTH, Enugu for Second dose of the Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV2) for their babies at 10 weeks postpartum. Data was collected using Interviewer-administered questionnaire and subsequently analyzed with version 22.0 IBM SPSS software, Chicago, Illinois. A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered as statistically significant.

Result

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SUBMITTER: Onwuka CI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10062588 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature