ArticleJournal of family medicine and primary care2021
A cross-sectional study on health-seeking behavior in relation to reproductive tract infection among ever-married rural women in Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu.
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- Reproductive health seeking behaviour and its determinants in Indian women-a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2026Review
- Health seeking behavior and prevalence of self-reported symptoms of reproductive tract infection among women of reproductive age group in Dehradun District, Uttarakhand.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025Article
- Predictive model for genital tract infections among men and women in Ghana: An application of LASSO penalized cross-validation regression model.Epidemiology and infection · 2024Article
- Syndromic diagnosis, sexual behavior, and management in rural population among all cases attending sexually transmitted infection clinic in a tertiary care center from the east-central zone of India: A retrospective study.Indian journal of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDSArticle
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Abstract
introductionReproductive tract infection (RTI) is the infection of the reproductive tract. Due to the hesitation in reporting the symptoms and receiving the treatment from the health centers, there is a significant dropout. The health care-seeking actions of the women reflects the attentiveness of the disease in that community and the inadequacy of the health care facility. Since the women from the rural area belongs to high-risk group for RTI, this study was conducted with the objective to assess the health care-seeking behavior about reproductive tract infection among rural women in the reproductive age group in Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu. Primary care physicians play a vital role in improving health care system, assessing the health-seeking practice helps in improvement and decision making and implementing. METHODS AND MATERIAL: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted in the rural field practice area of Chettinad hospital. A sample size of 330 was arrived by multi-stage random sampling and population proportion to size method. Data was collected using a standardized questionnaire of DLHS- 4 on RTI/STI. Data entered in MS-EXCEL and analyzed using SPSS version 21 and results interpreted.
resultsThe prevalence of RTI was found to be 50.3%. 60.8% of the affected females received treatment with majority of them in the group following home remedies. Significant association was noted between treatment seeking behavior, age, and the socioeconomic status (
conclusionsThe women in the reproductive age group in the rural areas should be provided with regular health education regarding the symptoms of the RTI and also motivate them to seek appropriate treatment.
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