International Journal of Innovative Research and Development

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Objective: To develop a spiritual health assessment scale to measure spiritual health

Materials and methods: The study was started with the definition of spiritual health and its review. The spiritual health assessment scale was developed after discussing its rationality. This scale contains three domains for assessment of spiritual health v.i.z. Self-development, Self-Actulization and Self-Realization. Each of the domains has seven items in itself, related to domain. Each of the item is given scoring of between ‘1’ to ‘5’ on Likert scale. Likewise, total spiritual health score ranges from ‘21’ to ‘105’. Poor spiritual health was considered when spiritual health score between ‘21’ to ‘49’, fair spiritual health was considered when spiritual health score between ‘50’ to ‘77’ and good spiritual health was considered when spiritual health score between ‘78’ to ‘105’ Applicability, reliability and validity of this scale was tested by applying it on randomly selected 1050 individuals of 20-60 years residing in Dausa city of Rajasthan.

Results: Applicability of this SHAS scale was 98.2%, test-retest reliability 81.14% and internal consistency validity 0.81. Discriminate validity to discriminate within poor, fair and good spiritual health was significant (P<0.001)

Conclusions: This scale can be used to measure spiritual health as it has good applicability, reliability and validity. It can be used for all sections of the community as it is not based on religion. 

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Background: Utilization of Ante natal care (ANC) services is poor in the rural areas, causing increased maternal morbidity and mortality.

Objective: To assess the utilization of antenatal care services in the field practice area of RHTC Naila in Jaipur district of Rajasthan.

Materials and Methods: A community based cross sectional descriptive type of observational study was carried out in the field practice area of RHTC Naila in Jaipur district of Rajasthan. 30 Cluster sampling technique was used to cover whole field practice area of RHTC. 450 mothers having children < 1 year in the selected clusters were interviewed. Information about the ANC services utilization and relevant socio‑demographic data were also collected. To find out associating factors appropriate tests of significance were used.

Results: Out of total 450 mothers 93.56% had utilized ante-natal services of health department but adequate ANC services were found to be utilized only by 13.13%. Reason behind utilizing ANC services was safety followed by other reasons like vaccination, IFA tablets, investigations, previous caesarian etc. Reason behind not utilizing ANC services was tradition of family followed by no problem during pregnancy.

Conclusion: Status of utilization of ANC services was very good but it is not done adequately. This ANC utilization is associated with caste, type of family, education and occupation.

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Research Question: To assess the nutritional status of children 1-5 years in the field practice area of RHTC Naila in Jaipur district of Rajasthan.

Materials and Methods: A community based cross sectional descriptive type of observational study was carried out in the field practice area of RHTC Naila in Jaipur district of Rajasthan. 30 Cluster sampling technique was used to cover whole field practice area of RHTC. 330 children 1-5 years were selected from clusters were. These children were examined and their mothers were interviewed. Information about nutritional status of children with relevant socio‑demographic data was also collected. To find out associating factors chi-square tests of significance were used.

Results: Out of total 330 children it was observed that 13.6% of children were found to have under-nutrition. It was also revealed in the present study that 62.73% were anemic (35.76% were mild anemic, 26.36% were having moderate anemic and 0.61% were severely anemic). Nutritional status of children was associated with Socio-economic status and child birth order whereas it was not associated with type of the family, family size and age of child

Conclusion: About one tenth of children were undernourished and about two third were having anemia. Nutritional status of children was associated with Socio-economic status and child birth order whereas it was not associated with type of the family, family size and age of child. 

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