Factors Associated with Antenatal Care Service Utilization among Women with Children under Five Years in Sunyani Municipality, Ghana

Maternal and neonatal mortality remains a public health burden around the globe most especially in developing countries. A well utilized antenatal care ANC is however among the identified interventions to reduce this burden of maternal and neonatal mortality rates. A lot of factors therefore predispose, enable and cause mothers to identify the need to utilize this service ANC .This study employed descriptive cross sectional survey design. A semi structured questionnaire consisting of demographic profile of the respondents, their knowledge about ANC services and the level of ANC utilization. Logistic regression analysis techniques and chi square were used for the categorical variables to examine the associations between the dependent and independent variables. Data analysis was done using the Statistical Package for Social Science software SPSS version 22. Majority 87 of postpartum mothers in the Sunyani municipality attended ANC at least once during their last pregnancy of which 95.6 had four or more visits and 77.1 initiated their ANC attendance within their first trimester. It was further observed that 97.3 of the mothers had good knowledge about ANC. Marital status and ANC knowledge were found to be significantly associated with ANC attendance. Stephen Owusu Sekyere | Kodua Freda "Factors Associated with Antenatal Care Service Utilization among Women with Children under Five Years in Sunyani Municipality, Ghana" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-3 , April 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd39882.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/other-scientific-research-area/other/39882/factors-associated-with-antenatal-care-service-utilization-among-women-with-children-under-five-years-in-sunyani-municipality-ghana/stephen-owusu-sekyere