Institutional delivery and postnatal care utilisation among reproductive-aged women who had completed four or more antenatal care visits in Myanmar: a secondary analysis of 2015-2016 Demographic and Health Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the prevalence of institutional delivery and postnatal care after home delivery and to identify their determinants in Myanmar mothers who received at least four antenatal care visits.

Design

The study used the Myanmar Demographic and Health Survey data (2015-2016), a nationally representative cross-sectional study.

Participants

The study included women aged 15-49 years who had at least one birth within the 5 years preceding the survey and completed four or more antenatal visits.

Outcome measures

Institutional delivery and postnatal care after home delivery were used as outcomes. We used two separate samples, that is, 2099 women for institutional delivery and 380 mothers whose most recent birth was within 2 years before the survey and deliv

SUBMITTER: Oo HY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10163536 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature