TY - JOUR
T1 - Awareness and attitudes regarding prenatal sex determination, pre-conception and pre-natal diagnostic techniques act (PCPNDTA) among pregnant women in South India
AU - Kumar, Nithin
AU - Darshan, B. B.
AU - Unnikrishnan, Bhaskaran
AU - Kanchan, Tanuj
AU - Thapar, Rekha
AU - Mithra, Prasanna
AU - Kulkarni, Vaman
AU - Holla, Ramesh
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to the study participants who voluntarily took part in the study. We wish to acknowledge the support provided by the Department of Community Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore and Manipal University for encouraging research and its publication in international journals of repute.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/10/1
Y1 - 2014/10/1
N2 - Objectives: The present study was conducted to assess the awareness and attitude regarding prenatal sex determination and Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic techniques Act among pregnant women. Methods: A cross sectional study was carried at tertiary care teaching hospitals of Kasturba Medical College in Mangalore among 132 pregnant women. Data was collected using a pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire and was analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences(SPSS) version 11.5 and results were expressed in percentages. Results: The study included 132 participants and the mean age of study subjects was around 27 y. Majority of the study subjects (91.7%) knew that prenatal sex determination was possible. Three fourth (74.4%) of the participants prenatal sex determination was a punishable offence. One of the participants was ready to terminate pregnancy if sex of the fetus was revealed to be female before second trimester. Majority of participants (67.4%) were willing to educate people about PCPNDT act and motivate them against sex determination and sex selective abortions. Conclusion: Our study showed that higher proportion of participants knew about the prenatal sex determination and it was a punishable offence, still majority of them preferred to know the sex of unborn child which shows the need to implement the act effectively.
AB - Objectives: The present study was conducted to assess the awareness and attitude regarding prenatal sex determination and Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic techniques Act among pregnant women. Methods: A cross sectional study was carried at tertiary care teaching hospitals of Kasturba Medical College in Mangalore among 132 pregnant women. Data was collected using a pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire and was analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences(SPSS) version 11.5 and results were expressed in percentages. Results: The study included 132 participants and the mean age of study subjects was around 27 y. Majority of the study subjects (91.7%) knew that prenatal sex determination was possible. Three fourth (74.4%) of the participants prenatal sex determination was a punishable offence. One of the participants was ready to terminate pregnancy if sex of the fetus was revealed to be female before second trimester. Majority of participants (67.4%) were willing to educate people about PCPNDT act and motivate them against sex determination and sex selective abortions. Conclusion: Our study showed that higher proportion of participants knew about the prenatal sex determination and it was a punishable offence, still majority of them preferred to know the sex of unborn child which shows the need to implement the act effectively.
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U2 - 10.7860/JCDR/2014/9789.5033
DO - 10.7860/JCDR/2014/9789.5033
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84964258125
SN - 2249-782X
VL - 8
SP - 9
EP - 11
JO - Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
JF - Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
IS - 10
ER -