aDepartment of Pharmacology, FH Medical College, NH 2, Tundla, Uttar Pradesh, India
bDepartment of Community Medicine, SHKM Government Medical College, Mewat, Haryana, India
cDepartment of Microbiology, MSDS Medical College, Fatehgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
dDeputy Director Health, Directorate of Health Services, Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar, India
eDepartment of Pharmacology, SHKM Government Medical College, Mewat, Haryana, India
fDepartment of Paediatrics, SHKM Government Medical College, Mewat, Haryana, India
gDepartment of Community Medicine, MM Medical College, Mullana, Haryana, India
1Corresponding author
Online published on 20 April, 2016.
To evaluate the drug utilization pattern and practices during pregnancy in women attending ante-natal clinic of a tertiary care teaching institution of western Uttar Pradesh. An additional objective was to find out relation of women's education with various parameters related to drug use during pregnancy. About 202 pregnant women were interviewed. Category A drugs constituted 54.57%, 86.99% and 41.11%, category B constituted 27.14%, 9.37% and 37.5% and category D constituted 6%, 0.19% and 14.14% of the drugs used during the first, second and third trimester of pregnancy respectively. Self-medication, homeopathic/herbal drugs, women having knowledge about contraceptives, use of IFA and Calcium during pregnancy, women attending more than five antenatal visits were used more in literate, than in illiterate subjects (p<0.001).
Medical audit, Pregnancy, Education, Prescription, Drug utilization, Pattern
