Knowledge, Attitude, Practices Regarding Antenatal Care: A Case Study of Jampur

Abstract

This research deals with the process of knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding antenatal care that takes place in Jampur. Punjab, Pakistan. This research was conducted in Jampur village. The study aimed to explore the changing practices of antenatal care and to explore the knowledge of advantages and disadvantages of C-sections and normal deliveries. Another focus of the study was to explore the available maternal health care facilities and to find out the cultural perception related to breastfeeding. This study is conducted by applying anthropological qualitative research paradigm and ethnographic models Mix methodology has been used to collect the field data in four months. Different techniques and tools of ethnographic research methods have been used such as key informants, participant observation, in-depth interviews, case studies, socioeconomic surveys, and focus group discussions. Moreover, secondary sources were also consulted to supplement the study with empirical data and analysis. The research study adopts a holistic view of antenatal care health care facilities. Particularly, the attention is majorly directed towards issues of inequality in available health services in the relation to social class, power, wealth and poverty, gender, ethnicity, and misdistribution of resources. The center of attention was to find out the condition and practices in antenatal care. The present study deals with the exploitation of rural areas by developed urban centers in the area of health care. The objectives of the study were; to probe co-relation between antenatal care and availability of resources, to investigate the practices and problems of reproductive health and available medical facilities in Jampur. The results of the study align theoretically with the framing proposed by World System Theory. This study has identified and analyzed from the lens of worldsystem theory, and theorize the exploitation of rural areas at the hand of developed urban centers regarding maternal health infrastructure. Therefore, the level of exploitative dependency is related and relevant to the results inferred through fieldwork in Jampur.