Utilisation of Anganwadi services among pregnant women in rural Telangana: A cross sectional study
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Background: Anganwadi centers were providing integrated services comprising supplementary nutrition, immunization, health check-up, and referral services to children below six years of age and expectant and nursing mothers. After more than three decades of implementation, the success of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) program in tackling maternal and childhood problems still remains a matter of concern. Objectives: To estimate the proportion of pregnant women utilizing various services provided by the anganwadi centre. To assess the association between demographic factors and utilization of anganwadi services by pregnant women. Methods: A cross-sectional study with a sample size of 135 was conducted in three villages attached to a medical college. Pregnant women enrolled in anganwadi the center were included in the study. Data was collected by a predesigned pretested semi-structured questionnaire. Data was presented in proportions, odds ratio with confidence interval, and Chi-square test, Fisher test was applied to find the association between variables by using SPSS ver. 23. Results: The study showed 86.66% utilized supplementary nutrition services, 62.96% received health education, 85.92% took vaccines from anganwadi centre, 40.74% utilized referral services, and 82.22% utilized health checkups services provided by anganwadi centre. Distance from the centre was found to be an important determinant of the utilization of anganwadi services. Conclusions: There is a need to sensitize and motivate beneficiaries to utilize the services offered by anganwadi center.
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ASHAs and Anganwadi teachers are instrumental in providing frontline health services in rural India, and both played important roles in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, including coordinating vaccination efforts.
“As trusted members of their local communities, ASHAs and Anganwadi teachers are instrumental in providing frontline health services in rural India, [66–68] and both played important roles in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, including coordinating vaccination efforts [68, 69].”
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The Introduction describes anganwadi workers providing health education, immunization, check-ups and referrals, supporting their role in frontline health services. The Results report vaccine use at anganwadi centres among pregnant women in rural Telangana. The paper does not establish ASHAs’ role or discuss either group’s COVID-19 response or coordination of COVID-19 vaccination; searches for ASHAs and COVID-19 found no such passage. Page numbers were unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Authors
- Harikrishna, B. N., Jothula, K. Y., Nagaraj, K., & Prasad, V. G.
- Affiliations
- Department of Community Medicine, ESIC Medical College, Sanath Nagar, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bibinagar (IN)
- Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences (IN)
- Department of Community Medicine, Kamineni Institute of Medical Sciences, Narketpally, Nalgonda District, Telangana, India
- Corresponding author
- Jothula, Kishore Y.
- Venue
- Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
- Published
- 2020-07
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 3343-3348
- ISSN
- 2249-4863 (ISSN-L)
- 2278-7135
- PMC
- PMC7567272
- OpenAlex
- W3044190120
- Cited by
- 12
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- FWCI
- 1.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- doi.org
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- Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Global Maternal and Child Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Public Health and Nutrition
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
- Keywords
- Anganwadi centres, Integrated Child Development Services, pregnant women, service utilization, obstetric care, supplementary nutrition, immunization, health checkups, health education, referral services, distance to health facility
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