ABSTRACT

The study was designed to determine the effect of home delivery among pregnant women of Sabon Gari Kaduna South Local Government Area Kaduna State. The project is divided into 5 chapters in other to make easy understanding, chapter 1 scope and delimitation, aim and objectives, limitation and defination of terms of the study. Chapter 2 focused on literature review of the study from different authors, which the topics is divided into sub-topic, they include: effect of home delivery, causes of home delivery, which are poverty, lack of clinics, ignorance, lack of personnels, distance also tried to find the risk factor associated with home delivery which are complication like haemorrage, retained placenta, obstructed labour, maternal mortality infection etc. chapter 3 deals with the methodology used in the research project they are research design, population of the study which is about 6050 people, the sample study is 100 people, the sampling, the data collection used in this work is questionnaire which are distributed top different people, the instrument used for data analysis is simple table chart with percentage. The next chapter discuss on the presentation of findings of data collected from the respondents and the last chapter deals with summary of findings, conclusion, recommendation and references, which shows that home delivery can reduce through creating, provision of adequate clinics and personnel. 27% believes is adequate medical personnels and 37% said health education, the majority of the respondent belief it is an adequate clinics that will reduce home delivery followed by health education and adequate personnels, from table 13, it shows that 50% of the respondent have only on health centre in their area while 30% have 2 and 19% have 3 above, therefore majority of the respondent have only 1 clinic in there area.

TABLE OF CONTENT

Title page                                                                                          i

Approval page                                                                                  ii

Declaration page                                                                               iii

Dedication                                                                                         iv

Acknowledgement                                                                                      v

Abstract                                                                                            vii

Table of contents                                                                              viii

CHAPTER ONE

1.0     Introduction                                                                                      1

1.1     Background of the study                                                                   1

1.2     Statement of the problem                                                                  2

1.3     Aim and objectives                                                                  3

1.4     Significance of the study                                                                   4

1.5     Scope and delimitation                                                            4       

1.6     Limitation of the study                                                            4       

1.7     Research questions                                                                           4

1.8     Definition of terms                                                                            5

CHAPTER TWO

2.0     Literature review                                                                     6

2.1     Concept of home delivery                                                       6       

2.2     Causes of home delivery                                                                   7

2.3     Effect of home delivery                                                           8

2.4     Traditional belief associated with pregnancy and child birth  9

2.5     Reason why women prefer home delivery                               10     

CHAPTER THREE

3.0     Methodology                                                                           14

3.1     Research design                                                                       14

3.2     Population of the study area                                                   14

3.3     Sample size                                                                             15

3.4     Instrument for data collection                                                 15

3.5     Validity and reliability of the instrument                                15

3.6     Instrument for data collection                                                 15

CHAPTER FOUR

4.0     Result findings/discussion                                                       16     

4.1     Introduction                                                                            16

4.2     Presentation of frequency distribution                                              16

CHAPTER FIVE

5.0     Introduction                                                                                      27

5.1     Summary of findings                                                               27

5.2     Conclusion/findings                                                                 28

5.3     Recommendation                                                                     28

Reference                                                                                          30

Appendix                                                                                          32