1Department of Community Medicine, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Ghaziabad.
2National Institute of Health & Family Welfare, Munirka, Delhi.
3Department of Community Medicine, S N Medical College, Agra.
Despite continuous efforts by government functionaries the utilization and awareness regarding antenatal care is still poor in India.
To find out the practices regarding antenatal care practices in rural and urban Agra district.
Community based cross sectional study utilizing rapid assessment procedures in Mohallas of Agra city and villages of Agra district.
Semi structured and pre tested schedule was used to interview 541 mothers of under one year children in 80 clusters of Agra district.
Tests of significance like chi squre test.
More than half of mothers (53.6%) got registered with ANC services. It was found that 56.2 percent received two doses or booster dose of Tetanus Toxoid Vaccine and IFA supplementation services utilization was 44.7%. Only 21.8 percent undergone health checkup, 12% took one additional diet per day and 23.8% took rest for two hours in the daytime. Around 54 percent deliveries were taken place at home and around 61 percent deliveries were attended by trained personnel.
ANC services, place of delivery, trained health personnel
