Study on prevalence of pregnancy complication and patient's awareness at Dhaka city in Bangladesh

Abstract

Complications during pregnancy are very much common in our country, but majority of the women do not have enough knowledge about this complications. So this current study was aimed to find out the prevalence of pregnancy related complications and patients’ awareness about these complications at Dhaka city in Bangladesh. This was a survey based study where pregnant women from different hospital at Dhaka city were interviewed with a questionnaire. All the women in our study were in their third trimester of pregnancy. We have found 230 pregnant women with various complications among 300 sample population. Majority of the patients had hypertensive disorder (35%), anemia (26.33%). Some patients had UTI (4%), hepatitis (4%). We have found very insignificant amount of patients with diabetes and thyroid disorder. Among 230 patients with complications 18.66% had problems before their pregnancy and 76.66% had problem in their current pregnancy. The awareness level about these complications among the respondents was not satisfactory. In case of hypertensive disorder, the most practicing awareness factors were drinking sufficient water in a day, taking enough rest, taking prescribed medications. Majority of the anemic patients were aware about taking folic acid or vitamin B12, taking vitamin C containing foods or fruits and also taking the prescribed medication. Almost all the respondents learnt about these complications from their doctors. We have seen that many of them were not concern about taking proper antenatal or postnatal care. So there should be adequate steps in our country to make the women conscious about the total pregnancy period and also make the arrangements for practicing all the steps easily that will help the women to give birth their baby safely.