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Prenatal Care*

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Prenatal Care*

Background: Antenatal Care (ANC) is an essential mandatory preventive care service freely given to pregnant women by the Philippine government. Despite the available ANC services in the country, not all pregnant women still avail of the service. Objective: The study determined the socio-demographic profile of mothers, their ANC services utilization, and the different problems encountered during their antenatal care. Methods: A descriptive research design was used. Purposive sampling was employed to identify the population of the study: women of reproductive age, 18-45 years old, and who had a live birth for the last three years regardless of utilization, partial utilization, or non-utilization of ANC services. Mothers who were currently pregnant and had a history of abortion or stillbirth delivery were excluded from participation. Proportionate sampling was computed to get the sample size: 334 mothers from Iriga City and 392 from Tabaco City. The survey questionnaire was based on the ANC guidelines of the DOH. The statistical treatment used was frequency counting, percentage, and ranking in data analysis. Results: The mothers in Iriga City and Tabaco City were ages 23-27 years old who had 1-3 children, were single but living with partners, and in a nuclear type of family with 4-6 members, were unemployed/housewives, and belonged to a low-income family with >P7,890 family income. In Iriga City, the majority were high school graduates, while in Tabaco City, most were graduates of vocational courses; and elementary and high school undergraduates. There were excellent assessments for history-taking, physical examination, and care provisions in both cities, except for oral health care examination, tests for syphilis, stool examination, acetic acid wash, safe sex education, and oral health checkups and prophylaxis. The identified problems were financial constraints, lack of support system, busy taking care of the kids, sickness, forgetfulness, unwanted pregnancy, drunkard husband, difficult first trimester, bad attitude of midwives, nurses, doctors, and unequal treatment of poor patients. Conclusions Mothers in both cities were young adults with a low education level who lived with their partners in a poor small nuclear family. Not all ANC services were excellently utilized. Among these were the poor utilization of the tests for syphilis, stool, acetic acid wash; oral health care examination; safe sex education; and oral health checkups and prophylaxis. There were various problems that mothers encountered when seeking ANC services, the most common of which were financial and personal issues.
Prenatal Care

The rapid development of molecular genetic test makes it possible to screen and to diagnosis thousands of genetic diseases. Accordingly, the needs for prenatal genetic diagnosis for non-chromosomal genetic diseases are increasing. Prenatal genetic diagnosis and appropriate counselling is an important part of the overall scheme of prenatal care. Therefore, we are going to review the general principles of prenatal diagnosis and its clinical applications with several practical cases.
Diagnosis* ; Molecular Biology ; Prenatal Care ; Prenatal Diagnosis

A cross-sectional study examined 132 pregnant women of Huong Long commune, Hue city about prenatal care, inoculation and enhancing nutrition, working and rest of pregnant women. This study was determined some factors impact on antenatal examination and newborn status. The results: 22.0% of pregnant women had rather good knowledge level in need of prenatal care, 29.5% had average level and 48.5% had poor level of knowledge. 72% of pregnancies were previously planned, 66.6% had full pregnant care, 22.7% had pregnant care during first trimester, 83.3% received full dose of tetanus, 14.4% used acid folic and iron pills, 60.6% ate more during pregnant period, 78.0% did light or average work loads during pregnant period, 43.2% stopped working, 67.4% had full weight increasing during pregnancy. The abnormal babies rate after delivery was 18.3%. There was a relationship between newborn status and the following factors: frequency of pregnant care, work loads and weight increasing level during pregnant period
Prenatal Care ; Pregnant Women ; Knowledge

Female ; Humans ; Mosaicism ; Pregnancy ; Prenatal Care ; Prenatal Diagnosis ; Trisomy/genetics*

Pregnancy ; Female ; Humans ; Mosaicism ; Prenatal Diagnosis ; Prenatal Care ; Aneuploidy

In the year 2002, 132 pregnant women in the commune Huong Long, Hue city were enrolled randomly into a study concerning the knowledge and the practice of prenatal care. Results showed 22% had got rather good level of knowledge, 29.5% moderate level and 42.5% bad level on needed contents of prenatal care. 72% had got previous plan of pregnancy, 60.6% had got full care, 14.4% consumped ferrous folic tablets adequatly. Planed pregnancy, education level and knowledge about prenatal care were the positive factors of closed relation with the pregnant monitoring. 18.3% of babies were abnormal at birth. There is a strict relation with the state of the neonate babies and the factors such as the frequency of pregnant examination, the working characteristics and the weight gain level during pregnancy.
Knowledge ; Prenatal Care ; Pregnant Women ; Epidemiology

OBJECTIVE: To calculate monthly weight gains during pregnancy among 20s, early and late 30s, and to investigate the influence of age groups on monthly weight gains. METHODS: We analyzed the monthly weight gain data from 892 women who had visited before 20 weeks of gestation and had healthy singleton term pregnancy. Data was categorized in three groups according to age (20s, early and late 30s). RESULTS: The monthly weight gain tables among 20s, early and late 30s have been determined. Monthly weight gain was not significantly different among three age groups. CONCLUSION: Although statistically insignificant among three age groups, more cautious prenatal care according to the monthly weight gain-gestational month tables for each age group is needed to prevent complications which may be associated with abnormal weight gain during pregnancy.
Female ; Humans ; Pregnancy* ; Prenatal Care ; Weight Gain*

Pregnancy is a critical period in every woman's life. The health of both the mother and her unborn child is at stake, with poor access to needed prenatal care services. Obtaining prenatal care is affected by the pregnancy literacy of the expectant mother. However, the assessment tool for health literacy among Filipino pregnant women is limited. This paper aimed to examine existing maternal health literacy instruments. Hopefully, an adopted tool can be found for assessing prenatal health literacy. After examining existing maternal health literacy tools, 18 questions were suggested that can be further modified before they are used for Filipino pregnant women to assess their prenatal health literacy.
Human ; Female ; Prenatal Care ; Pregnant Women