Factors associated with the preference for delivery at the government hospitals in rural areas of Lucknow district in Uttar Pradesh

• Published in: Indian journal of public health Vol. 57; no. 4; pp. 268 - 271
• Main Authors: Roy, Manas Pratim, Mohan, Uday, Singh, Shivendra Kumar, Singh, Vijay Kumar, Srivastava, Anand Kumar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: India Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd 01-10-2013; Medknow Publications & Media Pvt. Ltd; Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
• Subjects: Adult; Age; Beliefs, opinions and attitudes; Cross-Sectional Studies; Delivery, Obstetric - statistics & numerical data; Education; Female; Government hospital; Health aspects; Health care facilities; Hindus; Hospital facilities; Hospital maternity services; Hospitals; Hospitals, Public; Humans; India; Infant, Newborn; Institutional delivery; Interviews as Topic; Janani Suraksha Yojana; Maternal health; Maternal Health Services - organization & administration; Medical care; Patient Preference; Personal preferences (Social sciences); Pregnancy; Private sector; Random sampling; Registration; Religion; Rural areas; Rural India; Rural Population; Rural women; Sampling; Social aspects; Social Class; Social interactions; Socioeconomic Factors; Sparsely populated areas; Statistical sampling; Studies; Utilization; Variables; Womens health; India; Uttar Pradesh India
• ISSN: 0019-557X; 2229-7693
• DOI: 10.4103/0019-557X.123271

For assuring safe maternal and newborn health, institutional delivery was given paramount importance. In India, in spite of several efforts, lesser than 40% deliveries are conducted at health facilities, mostly at private sector. The present cross-sectional study aimed to find out the determinants of preference for delivery at government hospitals in rural areas of Lucknow, a district in Uttar Pradesh. Multistage random sampling was used for selecting villages. From them, 352 recently delivered women were selected, following systematic random sampling. Overall, 84.9% of deliveries were conducted at health institutions. Out of them, 79.3% were at government hospitals. Applying multivariate logistic regression, Hindu women (odd's ratio [OR] = 3.205), women belonging to lower socio-economic class (OR = 4.630) and late registered women (OR = 2.320) were found to be more likely to deliver at government hospitals. Attention should be given to religion, social status and timing of registration for ensuring higher fraction of deliveries at government set-up.