Socio-Demographic Factors Responsible For Abortion
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Abortion plays a significant role in reproductive life of the women in which direct or indirectly affect to maternal mortality and disability.Study was conducted to assess the sociodemographic factors related with abortion under Comprehensive Abortion Care & Post Abortion Care (CAC/PAC) services in six districts of Lumbini Zone of Nepal. Hospital based cross sectional study was undertaken among the reproductive age group (15-49 years) who had received CAC/PAC services under the abortion law of Nepal. A total number of 1476 respondents were selected till sample size was met. Chisquare, mean age, standard deviation, co-efficient of variance, ANOVA statistical test was used for testing the significant of analyzed data. The resultsrevelsthat reasons for receiving CAC/PACservices was in various socio-demographic circumstances such as highly fertile age group between 20-30yrs (60.8%), early age pregnancy (10.0%), illiterate (26.0%)rural (82.5%),less than 50000 annual family income (68.8%) etc. The result shows the socio-demographic factors play a significant role in undergoing abortion.
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