Factors associated with underutilization of antenatal care in India: Results from 2019–2021 National Family Health Survey

Nandan Thakkar, Prima Alam and Deepak Saxena

PLOS ONE, 2023, vol. 18, issue 5, 1-13

Abstract: Introduction: Despite progress in recent years, full antenatal care utilization in India continues to be relatively low and inequitable, particularly between states and districts. In 2015–2016, for example, only 51% of women aged 15–49 in India attended antenatal care at least four times during pregnancy. Using data from the fifth iteration of India’s National Family Health Survey, our study aims to explore factors related to the underutilization of antenatal care in India. Materials and methods: Data from the most recent live birth in the past five years among women aged 15–49 years were included in our analysis (n = 172,702). Our outcome variable was “adequate antenatal care visits”, defined as four or more antenatal visits. Utilizing Andersen’s behavioral model, 14 factors were identified as possible explanatory variables. We used univariate and multivariate binary logistic regression models to analyze the association between explanatory variables and adequate visits. Associations were considered statistically significant if p

Date: 2023
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