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THE DETERMINATION OF THE FREQUENCY OF UN-BOOKED WOMEN AND THEIR MODE OF DELIVERY: A CROSS-SECTIONAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Dr. Maryam Aslam, Dr. Anam Sahar, Dr. Junaid Khalid

Objective: The research objective is the assessment of the un-booked cases and their delivery mode presenting at Services Hospital, Lahore. Material and Methods: The study type is cross-sectional, that we conducted at Services Hospital, Lahore (March to September 2018). We selected 182 patients with obstetric and assessed C-section/vaginal mode of delivery associating with parity, age, and education-status. Results: We took 182 obstetric patients with mean age of (25.2 ± 5.3) years. The number of booked and un-booked patients 45% (82) and 55% (100) respectively. Vaginal and C-section deliveries were 39% (71) and 61% (111) respectively. The number of cases having family income < 15,000, (15 – 30) thousand, and > 30,000 were 53% (97), 31% (57), and 15.40% (28) respectively. The number of Primary-para and Multi-para cases was 55% (101), and 45% (81) respectively. A number of patients belonging to the rural and urban area was 64% (116) and 36% (66) respectively. Conclusion: The study concludes that the number of un-booked obstetric women was larger with a higher C-section rate. Most of the patients were having low socio-economic background with very low literacy rate. We noted a significant association between education-status and MOD. Keywords: Mode of Delivery (MOD), Caesarean Section (C-section), Antenatal Care (AC) and Obstetric

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