Investigation on procreation status among married women of reprodutive age in rural areas of Anhui Province

Objective To understand the status of procreation among married women of reproductive age in rural areas of Anhui province as well as to provide some clues for making corresponding prevention policy.Methods 1 398 rural reproductive women were surveyed at their households using structured questionnaire.Results A total of 1 221 qualified question-naires were collected accounting for a response rate of 87.3%.The rate of spontaneous abortion and induced abortion was 7.3% and 26.2%,respectively.The percentage of prenatal care and postpartum follow-up was 67.8% and 24.2%,respectively.The percentage of prenatal care and postpartum care of the respondents among different age and education sub-groups had statistically significances.60.4% women were infected and 78.3% women had the depression related symptoms in puer-perium.Conclusion The reproductive health care was weak in gestation and puerperium of rural women.lt was important for related departments to put more focuses on prenatal care,postpartum follow-up and puerperium care.