Maternal and Fetal Complications of the Tribal Population in Visakhapatnam District: The Empirical Evidence

  • Unique Paper ID: 154360
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 11
  • PageNo: 18-30
  • Abstract:
  • The present study is an empirical evidence of the maternal and fetal complications among the tribal population of Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh and to study the knowledge, attitude and perception of the tribal women towards maternal health care services. In research, the question emphasizes how maternal and child health care services are provided to tribal women? During the period of December 2019 to November 2020, data were collected through in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, case studies from 193 ever married tribal females including 72 pregnant and 121 lactating mothers (P&LMs) of the reproductive aged 15–49 years of the eight villages in two mandals i.e. Araku Valley and Chintapalli were selected purposively by a simple random sampling. Further, data cross checked, entered and coded. The statistical analysis was done by using IBM for windows, version 18.0. Chicago: SPSS Inc.

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