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Factors influencing the utilization of Focused antenatal care services during pregnancy, a study among postnatal women in a tertiary healthcare facility, Ghana.
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- Barriers to timely and adequate antenatal care: a systematic review of socioeconomic, cultural, psychosocial, and health-system factors across high and low resource settings.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Pooled it
- Physical activity postpartum: A systematic review and quality appraisal of clinical guidelines.Women's health (London, England)Pooled it
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- Utilisation of eight antenatal care contacts among adolescent and adult mothers at a referral hospital in Western Kenya: a comparative cross-sectional study.The Pan African medical journal · 2026Article
- COVID-19 status and utilisation of essential maternal and child healthcare services during the pandemic in Ahmedabad, India.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Visible and invisible cultural patterns influencing women's use of maternal health services among Igala women in Nigeria: a focused ethnographic study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Evaluating the impact of engaging healthcare providers in an AI-based gamified mHealth intervention for improving maternal health outcomes among disadvantaged pregnant women in Lebanon.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Individual and community-level factors associated with adequate antenatal care service utilization in sub-Saharan Africa.Tropical medicine and health · 2024Article
- Utilization of Antenatal Care and Skilled Birth Delivery Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Community voices from modern maternal waiting home users in Zambia.Frontiers in global women's health · 2024Article
- Frequency and factors associated with focused antenatal care in Guinea: Analysis of the DHS 2018.Journal of public health in Africa · 2024Article
- Antenatal care utilization and its associated factors in Somalia: a cross-sectional study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Postpartum care needs assessment: women's understanding of postpartum care, practices, barriers, and educational needs.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Status of the latest 2016 World Health Organization recommended frequency of antenatal care contacts in Sierra Leone: a nationally representative survey.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Exploring solutions to improve antenatal care in resource-limited settings: an expert consultation.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022Article
- Number of antenatal care utilization and associated factors among pregnant women in Ethiopia: zero-inflated Poisson regression of 2019 intermediate Ethiopian Demography Health Survey.Reproductive health · 2022Article
- The Effect of Nursing Intervention Model Using Mobile Nursing System on Pregnancy Outcome of Pregnant Women.Journal of healthcare engineering · 2022Article
- Urban-rural disparities of antenatal care in South East Asia: a case study in the Philippines and Indonesia.BMC public health · 2021Article
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- Adherence to Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation and Its Associated Factors among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care at Bwindi Community Hospital, Western Uganda.International journal of reproductive medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
Aim: To assess the factors that influence the utilization of FANC services among pregnant women. Methodology: A cross-sectional quantitative study conducted among 210 postnatal women in Ho Teaching Hospital. Data were entered into Microsoft excel, cleaned and transported to SPSS and analysed. Cross tabulations were used to explore associations between variables. Results: The respondents indicated that FANC would enable them to receive comprehensive ANC (74.8%). Higher parity was significantly associated with low utilization of FANC (
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