A POST-COUNSELLING STUDY ON THE ROLE OF THE COMMUNITY PHARMACIST IN PREDICTION AND PREVENTION OF RISK FACTOR OF LOW BIRTH WEIGHT IN A RURAL AREA OF GUNTUR DISTRICT (ANDHRA PRADESH)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.48047/Keywords:
Low birth weight, predictors, anthropometric, intrauterine fetal death.Abstract
Low birth weight is one of the long standing birth outcomes amongst all adverse pregnancy outcomes, which have lasting
influences in the later life span. Many pregnancies terminate into adverse outcomes such as pregnancy loss, intrauterine fetal
death, Low Birth Weight (LBW) and the anomalous births. India is one of the countries in the World that consistently reports
huge burden of adverse pregnancy outcomes. The objective of the study was to identify the predictors of low birth weight
amongst the babies born in rural areas of Guntur district and to assess the individual and combined effects of sociodemographic, parental anthropometric, obstetric and reproductive health related factors, health service use during pregnancy,
maternal nutrition status and behavioural predictors on the birth weight of new-borns.
