Health education to prevent anemia among women of reproductive age in southern India.
In this study, we used a narrow, but easily measured, indicator of how communication proceeded among health workers and women in Southern India. Anemia prevention during pregnancy was studied using a semistructured questionnaire. Participants included 5 nurses, 10 health aides, and 10 (traditional birth attendants) TBAs working with maternal health care and education, as well as 32 women seeking maternal health care. Those women who received health education where they lived, from health workers they knew, and together with participants familiar to them learned more about anemia prevention than others.
School of Health and Society, Malmö University, Sweden. pernilla.ny@hs.mah.se
Pernilla
P
Ny
Elisabeth
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Dejin-Karlsson
Giggi
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Udén
Ted
T
Greiner
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D018798:Anemia, Iron-Deficiency / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D003142:Communication; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D019266:Iron, Dietary / Q000008:administration & dosage; D009035:Mothers / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D020380:Needs Assessment; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012098:Reproduction; D012423:Rural Health; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
D019266:Iron, Dietary