Abstract:
The study was conducted on the barrier of antenatal care of adult pregnant women
attending in the hospital of Dhaka. The aim of the study to determine the barrier of
antenatal care of adult pregnant women. A cross sectional study was conducted at Maternal
and Child Health Training Institute, Azimpur, Dhaka. The Data was collected by face to face
interview by using a structure based questionnaire. Total 50 data was collected on a trialed
period of one month. In the study most of the pregnant was face different kind of
complication during their pregnancy period. . The nutritional status of the study shows that
50% pregnant women were normal, 34% were overweight, and 16% obese and also 36%
women face headache problem, only 8% women consume milk, 62% women face transport
problem, 50% women face different types of cultural problem in their pregnancy period. In
my study average year of the pregnant women 21-25 years, 48% women educational
qualification under matric, 26% out of 50 people face prejudice and 32% women’s are come
to hospital alone for her antenatal checkup, most of pregnant women’s husband is only the
earning member 52% family’s monthly income 11000-20000 taka, 62% family’s consist of 1-
5 members, 18% women face headache problem, 34% pregnant women get free treatment
facility such as medicine from government hospital and 18% do not get this facility, Only 1%
pregnant women get delivery facility from government and non-governmental organization
during their pregnancy period and 61% pregnant watch nutrition health program in
television.
