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. 2024 Apr 29:13:161.
doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_1071_23. eCollection 2024.

Evaluation of antenatal care utilization and its effects on obstetric and newborn outcomes at a public and private hospital of Karnataka: A comparative study

Rohith Motappa  1 , Pratham Shetty  2 , Srivatsa Acharya  2
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Evaluation of antenatal care utilization and its effects on obstetric and newborn outcomes at a public and private hospital of Karnataka: A comparative study

Rohith Motappa et al. J Educ Health Promot. .

Abstract

Background: Neonatal outcomes and perinatal mortality are directly and significantly impacted by the use of appropriate antenatal care (ANC) during pregnancy. The objective of this study is to evaluate the association between the use of prenatal services and maternal and newborn outcomes in both public and private healthcare settings.

Materials and methods: This study was carried out in two tertiary healthcare setups in Mangaluru, Karnataka: Government Lady Goschen Hospital (LGH) and Kasturba Medical College Hospital (KMCH) Attavar. Data were collected from 150 women who were a part of the study. Microsoft Excel was used to compile the data, and SPSS version 25 was used to analyze it.

Results: We found that 58 out of 90 women admitted to LGH went for ANC check-ups at least four times during their gestation period and the rest of them went eight times or more, compared to just 3 out of the 60 women admitted at KMCH who went at least four times, whereas the rest went eight or more. The number of checks the mother takes appears to affect the term of the gestation with fewer preterm seen in patients who have come for a minimum of eight ANC visits, a higher risk of abnormal weight gain during pregnancy, and a lower risk of giving birth to preterm babies.

Conclusion: The study reveals that private healthcare setups offer more antenatal services, including hospital visits, routine testing, supplements, and doctor advice. The number of antenatal visits is a significant difference between public and private healthcare setups. The public setup requires a minimum of four antenatal care visits, while the updated 2016 version requires eight. The number of antenatal visits affects both mother's and neonatal outcomes. A higher number of visits leads to fewer preterm births and a higher risk of abnormal weight gain. Education also influences the frequency of antenatal visits. The study suggests increasing the frequency of prenatal care visits and improving public education on this matter.

Keywords: Antenatal care; maternal outcome; neonatal outcome.

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Socioeconomic class of the study population
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Pie chart of ANC visits in LGH
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Pie chart of ANC visits in KMCH
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Clustered column chart of mode of delivery of study population in both hospitals
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