Compliance of Prenatal Care and Delivery Outcome of Obstetrics Patients at Bicol Medical Center

Prenatal care is the health care that both the woman and baby receive before giving birth. The main purpose of the study is to determine the relationship between compliance to prenatal care and its delivery outcome among OB patients admitted. This study were conducted from June 1 2020 to June 14, 2020 and used the descriptive-correlational design and sampling technique through purposive sampling method in obtaining data. Researcher utilized a questionnaire and interviewed mothers belonging to the inclusion criteria. Data were collated, submitted to the expert, and categorical regressions were used for analysis. The result showed that among the 388 mothers, majority of them belong to the age ranges from 20-35, single, unemployed, primigravida, and coming from the 3rd district of Camarines Sur. The compliance of prenatal care among mothers are on high standard and its delivery outcome is good. The characteristics are significant predictors to pre natal care however pre natal care is not significantly correlated with the delivery outcome. With this result, researcher still recommends to have at least 4 pre natal care as recommended by World Health Organization which is classified as moderate standard of care. Researchers does however suggests that future researchers can proceed to high-risk pregnant mothers as their respondents to compliance on pre natal care and its delivery outcome being the next step on this study.