ArticleJournal of pregnancy2019
Exploring the Determinants of Antenatal Care Services Uptake: A Qualitative Study among Women in a Rural Community in Northern Ghana.
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- Spatial analysis of under-five children mortality and associated determinants in Ghana: Mapping regional disparities for targeted interventions.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Urban-rural differences in the incompleteness of antenatal care coverage in Indonesia: A cross-sectional study.Malaysian family physician : the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia · 2025Article
- Barriers and facilitators to antenatal care services utilisation in Somaliland: a qualitative study.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Exploring Perceptions about Enablers of Women's Attendance and Adherence to the Recommended Antenatal Care Visits in Rwanda: A Qualitative Study.Rwanda journal of medicine and health sciences · 2024Article
- Prevention and management of anaemia in pregnancy: Community perceptions and facility readiness in Ghana and Uganda.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Where, why and who delivers our babies? Examining the perspectives of women on utilization of antenatal and delivery services in a developing country.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
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- Magnitude and Determinants of Antenatal Care Utilization in Kandahar City, Afghanistan.Obstetrics and gynecology international · 2021Article
- Predictors of Late Antenatal Care Initiation: A Multicentre Cross-Sectional Study in Ghana.SAGE open nursingArticle
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Abstract
backgroundGlobal evidence has shown significant contribution of Antenatal care (ANC) in the detection and treatment of pregnancy related complications. Over the years, many areas in Ghana have recorded high uptake of ANC. However, this is not the case for Binduri district in Northern Ghana where only 37.4% of pregnant women utilised the services of ANC during their period of pregnancy compared to a national figure of 87%. We therefore sought to explore the determinants of ANC uptake among women who failed to utilise ANC services during their period of pregnancy in Binduri District in Northern Ghana. METHODOLOGY: The study was an exploratory descriptive study using purposive sampling technique. A total of 15 women who met the inclusion criteria for the study were recruited for a face-to-face interview. The data were analysed using the procedure of inductive thematic analysis.
resultsThe study findings showed that several factors hindered the use of ANC among our participants. The individual factors that were responsible for nonutilisation of ANC included financial constraints hindering registration with the national health insurance scheme, excuses of being busy, perception that pregnancy was not sickness and concentration on work. Perceived poor attitude of nurses was the only health system factor that contributed to non utilisation of ANC services.
conclusionThere is the need for establishment of registration centres of the national health insurance in all communities to make the scheme more accessible. There should also be intensive public education on importance of attending ANC.
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