A Cross Sectional Study on the Pattern of Male Participation in Utilization of Reproductive Healthcare in Kamalapur Primary Health Centre Area of Gulbarga District, Karnataka.

Abstract

40% of women did not seek any treatment for their gynaecological problems, 30% visited PHC, 16.7% visited private clinics10% of them had taken home care and 3.3% of them got medicines from medical stores. 20% of the husbands accompanied women for ANC visits and in 80% of cases mother or mother in law accompanied her. Only in 6% of the couples decision about family planning was taken by both partners. Decision maker of woman’s health expenditure was her husband in 76.7% of the cases, 8.3% of cases her mother and in 10% of the cases her mother in law and in 5% of the cases women alone took decision.