Title

Effects of support from spouse on child birth among rural Indian women

Authors

Renu Waghmare¹, Purti Agrawal Saini², Chetan Sharma^1,*, Anjali Arya³ & Ramesh Agrawal⁴

Affiliation

¹Department of Community Medicine, Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha Government Medical College, Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh, India; ²Department of Pathology, Nandkumar Singh Chouhan Government Medical College, Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, India; ³Department of Microbiology, Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha Government Medical College Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh, India; ⁴Department of Microbiology, Government Medical College, Satna, Madhya Pradesh, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Renu Waghmare - E-mail: renuowaghmare@gmail.com
Purti Agrawal Saini - E-mail: purti.agrawal.saini@gmail.com
Chetan sharma - E-mail: chetansharma_92@hotmail.com
Anjali Arya - E-mail: Anjaliarya141191@gmail.com
Ramesh Agrawal - E-mail: drrameshagrawal22@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received May 1, 2026; Revised May 31, 2026; Accepted May 31, 2026, Published May 31, 2026

Abstract

Inadequate husband involvement remains a major barrier to effective birth preparedness and complication readiness (BPCR) for maternal and newborn care in rural India. Hence, a cross-sectional study was conducted from June 2025 to December 2025 at the Rural Health and Training Centre, Manglia, including 283 pregnant woman-husband dyads. The BPCR index was 45.86, indicating suboptimal preparedness in the study population. Significant associations were observed between husband involvement and completion of 4 ANC visits (OR=1.7), knowledge of one key danger sign of pregnancy (OR=1.8) and awareness of essential newborn care (OR=1.8). Thus, we show that husbands’ participation is significantly linked to better BPCR-related practices, supporting their inclusion in maternal counselling strategies.

Keywords

Birth preparedness and complication readiness (BPCR), husband in maternal and newborn health (MNH), maternal mortality rate

Citation

Waghmare et al. Bioinformation 22(5): 2843-2847 (2026)

Edited by

Ritik Kashwani

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.