ALTINDAĞ İLÇESİNDE ŞARTLI SAĞLIK YARDIMI ALAN KADINLARIN VE HANEHALKLARININ SOSYODEMOGRAFİK VE SAĞLIK DÜZEY PROFİLLERİ

Abstract

In this study, 400 out of 2327 women who received Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) in Altındağ district were randomly selected to evaluate their sociodemographic and health characteristics and 37-question survey applied by phonecalls. SPSS 23 and WhoAnthroPlus programs were used for data analysis. In the research, 52.0% of children under the age of 18 in households receive CCT. Participants mostly stated the source where they learned about CCT as “neighbor/friend”. In households where the participants are the head of household (n꓿72) mothers are more likely to think that they have sufficient knowledge for their childrens’ healthy growth compared to participants non-head of households (n꓿328). Weight-for-age z-score of 13% of the youngest children, whose weight (n꓿271) and height (n꓿91) information was obtained was moderately or severely underweight, and height-for-age z-score of 24.2% was moderately or severely stunted. The mean birth weight of the youngest children who receive CCT transfer is 3110 g. 91.5% of the mothers who evaluated their own health as good or very good also evaluated the health of their children as good or very good (p <0.001). 54.7% of the participants stated that the first institution they applied to was a family health center when they got sick, and 95.5% were satisfied with their family physician. It was found that those who had difficulties when they went to their family physician had a significantly higher frequency of experiencing health problems in their last pregnancy than those who did not (p <0.05). This result shows the importance of primary health care services. Maternal health should be supported to improve the health of children.