Research Article
Family Centered Approach in Primary Health Care: Experience from an Urban Area of Mangalore, India
Table 4
Key study variables before and after the implementation of family centered approach (FCA) in the study area.
| Study variable | Pre-FCA | Post-FCA | | |
| Proportion of houses using bed net () | 21.2 | 62 | 34.26 | <0.001 | Proportion of houses with wire meshed windows () | 19.8 | 58 | 30.67 | <0.001 | Incidence of malaria (per 1000 population) | 150 | 90 | 17.045 | <0.001 | Proportion of eligible couples who ever practiced any method of family planning () | 12.6 | 32 | 8.635 | 0.003 | Proportion of pregnant and lactating women who ate one extra meal () | 52 | 71 | 7.623 | 0.006 | Proportion of under five children with ADD in the last fifteen days () | 43 | 29.2 | 4.128 | 0.04 |
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FCA: family centered approach. Post-FCA assessment was done on 106 families/households selected by systematic random sampling.
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