Sexual and Reproductive Health of Women during Three Stages of Her Reproductive Life Span- A Comparative Analytical Study

Background: RTI/STI are major public health concern amongst women especially in SEAR countries . Majority of women think menstrual problem and vaginal discharge as a part of their normal life and thus continue to suffer silently. Hence it is difficult to estimate the burden of RTI from clinic records and therefore data is extracted from ICMR community based study done in rural parts of the country. Multi level cluster sampling techniques was adopted and ever married women aged 15-45 years was taken as sampling unit.
Methods: Information with regards to characteristics of vaginal discharge, education level ,occupation etc was elicited from every sampled women .Also both the diagnosis made by ANM and medical doctor was recorded and compared.
Results : Out of 5567 of the sampled women ,16 per cent of the women were clinically diagnosed of RTIs that too belonging to low risk population and from villages. The results of logistic regression concluded that MTP, use of OC, high risk sexual behavior, and husband infected with urethral discharge may increase the probability of a women for contracting STIs.
Conclusion: The result demonstrating the association should not decrease the acceptance of IUD, OC but should be interpreted carefully.