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Assessment of Antenatal Health Care Services and Degree of Clients’ Satisfaction in Qena city

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Last updated: 27 Dec 2024

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Community Medicine.
Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Abstract

Background: Antenatal care from a qualified clinician is essential for monitoring the pregnancy and minimizing the risks to the mother and child throughout pregnancy and delivery.
Objectives: To determine the level of satisfaction among women attending the antenatal care clinics in Qena city also to assess ANC services in pregnant women to identify the level of ANC.
Patients and methods: The degree of client satisfaction to ANC and factors affecting satisfaction were estimated in this cross-sectional study of 420 women. There were two groups: satisfied women and not-satisfied women. A structured questionnaire was used.
Results:The study revealed that , out of the total clients overall satisfied with ANC were 285 (  67.9%)  more than half of them  were rural residents, aged ≥ 29 years old, housewives and almost half of them had a medium social class,The significant risk factor related to degree of satisfaction to ANC wereHealth education about dangerous signs of labour, and Number of visits to ANC center, Ambulance availability, Doctors explain result ,Performance of nursing, Number of doctorsand the least factor Residence. By logistic regression analysisHealth education about dangerous signs of labourwas the most contributing factor associated with degree of satisfaction to ANC (p- value 0.008).
Conclusion:The study revealed that, out of the total clients overall satisfied with ANC were 285 (67.9%) but also it revealed weaknesses in several aspects of ANC services, indicating that increased resources and health education are needed to improve the quality of ANC services in the governorate.

DOI

10.21608/svuijm.2022.149406.1344

Keywords

Satisfaction, antenatal care, Women, Qena

Authors

First Name

Aya M.M.

Last Name

Elsaman

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Affiliation

Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

Email

aya_mohamed@med.svu.edu.eg

City

Qena

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First Name

Ahmed M.M.

Last Name

Hany

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Email

communitymedicine@med.svu.edu.eg

City

Assiut

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First Name

Ahmed Hashim

Last Name

Abdellah

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

Email

ahmed.abdelah@med.svu.edu.eg

City

Qena

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Volume

6

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

35538

Issue Date

2023-01-01

Receive Date

2022-07-11

Publish Date

2023-01-01

Page Start

45

Page End

55

Print ISSN

2735-427X

Online ISSN

2636-3402

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https://svuijm.journals.ekb.eg/article_251803.html

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Original research articles

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1,520

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Publication Title

SVU-International Journal of Medical Sciences

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https://svuijm.journals.ekb.eg/

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Assessment of Antenatal Health Care Services and Degree of Clients’ Satisfaction in Qena city

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Created At

23 Jan 2023