Awareness and attitude regarding obstetric fistula among married women

Abstract

Background: Awareness towards the maternal condition has great potential to reduce occur­rence of life threatening maternal and child illness. Hence, this study aimed to find out the awareness and attitude regarding obstetric fistula among married women.
 Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was used to find out the awareness and attitude re­garding obstetric fistula among 206 married women. Data were collected by using semi structured interview schedule and Likert Scale. Analysis was done by using descriptive statistics.
 Results: The age range of the respondents was 15-79 years. Among literate 163, 34.4% attended general education, 75% were married at the age of 15-19 years, 50% had their first baby at the age of 15-19 years, 65.0 % had 1-3 babies, 66.0% had home delivery and postnatal visit was 9.5%. In this study 0.9% respondents were found with obstetric fistula and 60.2% had low level of aware­ness. Regarding the level of attitude, 50.0% had positive attitude.
 Conclusions: The finding concluded that there is low level of awareness and fifty percentages had negative attitude regarding obstetric fistula among married women so there is need of intervn­tional awareness program in community.

Variability and awareness of obstetric fistula among women of reproductive age in sub-Saharan African countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…In this study, the pooled awareness obstetric fistula among women of reproductive age across studies conducted in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) was 40.85% ( 95% CI: 33.48, 48.22%). This finding was consistent with research utilizing Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from 14 sub-Saharan African countries, which estimated that, on average, 37.9% of women of reproductive age were aware of obstetric fistulas [ 56 ], with research done in Nepal, where 39.8% of people are at least somewhat aware of obstetric fistula [ 57 ], and with studies done in Pakistan, where 38.2% of women were well aware of obstetric fistula [ 58 ].…”