PMID- 34195139
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20220424
IS  - 2249-4863 (Print)
IS  - 2278-7135 (Electronic)
IS  - 2249-4863 (Linking)
VI  - 10
IP  - 5
DP  - 2021 May
TI  - Compliance with iron folic acid (IFA) tablets and associated factors among 
      pregnant women attending ante-natal care clinic at Sub District Hospital, 
      Ballabgarh.
PG  - 2006-2011
LID - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1742_20 [doi]
AB  - INTRODUCTION: Anemia is a common public health problem among children, adolescent 
      girls, women in reproductive age groups, pregnant and lactating women, with an 
      estimated prevalence of 50.3% among pregnant women according to National Family 
      Health Survey (NFHS) 4. Iron deficiency is regarded as the most common cause of 
      anemia among pregnant women globally and in India. This study was aimed to 
      estimate the prevalence of compliance to iron folic acid (IFA) tablets among 
      pregnant mothers attending ante-natal care (ANC) clinic in a Sub-district 
      hospital (SDH) situated in north India and the various factors associated with 
      non-compliance to IFA tablets. METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional facility-based 
      study was conducted among pregnant women attending the ANC clinic at SDH, 
      Ballabgarh. A pretested, semi-structured interview schedule was used to obtain 
      socio-demographic data, information related to IFA therapy that they receive, 
      their compliance and the factors that are related to missing of the doses. Data 
      were entered using Epicollect 5 software and Stata version 13.0 was used for 
      statistical analysis. RESULTS: A total of 484 pregnant women were enrolled in our 
      study. More than 3/4(th) (77.1%) of the pregnant women were compliant to IFA 
      tablet supplement given to them. The compliance was more in the study 
      participants belonging to older age groups, lower socio-economic status and those 
      with hemoglobin levels >11 gm/dl. The most common reason for non-compliance was 
      found to be "forgetfulness" (63.0%) followed by "side effects" (49.5%). 
      CONCLUSION: Compliance with IFA tablets was better among pregnant women who were 
      non anemic and those with good compliance to IFA tablets had better hemoglobin 
      levels.
CI  - Copyright: (c) 2021 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care.
FAU - Deori, Trideep J
AU  - Deori TJ
AD  - Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
FAU - Ramaswamy, Gomathi
AU  - Ramaswamy G
AD  - National Centre of Excellence and Advanced Research on Anemia Control (NCEAR -A), 
      New Delhi, India.
FAU - Jaiswal, Abhishek
AU  - Jaiswal A
AD  - Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
FAU - Loganathan, Vignesh
AU  - Loganathan V
AD  - Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
FAU - Kumar, Rakesh
AU  - Kumar R
AD  - Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
FAU - Mahey, Reeta
AU  - Mahey R
AD  - Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
FAU - Yadav, Kapil
AU  - Yadav K
AD  - Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
AD  - National Centre of Excellence and Advanced Research on Anemia Control (NCEAR -A), 
      New Delhi, India.
FAU - Kant, Shashi
AU  - Kant S
AD  - Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
AD  - National Centre of Excellence and Advanced Research on Anemia Control (NCEAR -A), 
      New Delhi, India.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210531
PL  - India
TA  - J Family Med Prim Care
JT  - Journal of family medicine and primary care
JID - 101610082
PMC - PMC8208205
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Compliance
OT  - IFA
OT  - iron folic acid
OT  - pregnant women
COIS- There are no conflicts of interest.
EDAT- 2021/07/02 06:00
MHDA- 2021/07/02 06:01
PMCR- 2021/05/01
CRDT- 2021/07/01 07:03
PHST- 2020/08/25 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/10/27 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/11/24 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/07/01 07:03 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/07/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/07/02 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2021/05/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - JFMPC-10-2006 [pii]
AID - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1742_20 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Family Med Prim Care. 2021 May;10(5):2006-2011. doi: 
      10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1742_20. Epub 2021 May 31.