Utilization of Preconception Care and Associated Factors Among Turkish Women

Year 2025, Volume: 9 Issue: 3, 654 - 664, 30.09.2025

Özkan Demir Emre Yanıkkerem

https://doi.org/10.30621/jbachs.1393249

Abstract

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Utilization of Preconception Care and Associated Factors Among Turkish Women

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine utilization of preconception care and associated factors among women.
Methods: This study was carried out at a hospital in Istanbul with 350 women. Data were collected with questionnaires about women's characteristics, a preconception risk assessment, and utilization of preconception care.
Results: Women's awareness and utilization of preconception care rates were found to be 30.3% and 11.4%, respectively. Women who had a university education, who worked, those whose income level was higher than their expenses, who got married over the age of 18, who had first pregnancy, who had a planned pregnancy, who heard about the concept of preconception care, and who received prenatal care were found to have statistically significantly higher rates of utilization preconception care than those in the other group. Out of 96 risks, only women with an education higher than primary school, those who exercised regularly, women who experienced recurrent miscarriages, and those who had knowledge or used folic acid utilized preconception care more than other groups.
Conclusion: Women's awareness and use of pre-pregnancy care were found to be low and women at risk during pregnancy did not use preconception care at the desired level.

Keywords

preconception care , utilization of preconception care , awareness of preconception care , risky pregnancies

Ethical Statement

The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Manisa Celal Bayar University Faculty of Medicine (Date: 29 August 2018; Number: 20478486). All participants gave written informed consent for the research.

Supporting Institution

The authors declare that this study received no financial support.

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Thanks

The authors would like to thank the women who participated in the study

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