Awareness and attitude regarding obstetric fistula among married women

Abstract

Background: Awareness towards the maternal condition has great potential to reduce occur­rence of life threatening maternal and child illness. Hence, this study aimed to find out the awareness and attitude regarding obstetric fistula among married women.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was used to find out the awareness and attitude re­garding obstetric fistula among 206 married women. Data were collected by using semi structured interview schedule and Likert Scale. Analysis was done by using descriptive statistics.

Results: The age range of the respondents was 15-79 years. Among literate 163, 34.4% attended general education, 75% were married at the age of 15-19 years, 50% had their first baby at the age of 15-19 years, 65.0 % had 1-3 babies, 66.0% had home delivery and postnatal visit was 9.5%. In this study 0.9% respondents were found with obstetric fistula and 60.2% had low level of aware­ness. Regarding the level of attitude, 50.0% had positive attitude.

Conclusions: The finding concluded that there is low level of awareness and fifty percentages had negative attitude regarding obstetric fistula among married women so there is need of intervn­tional awareness program in community.