Evaluation of healthcare services of integrated childhood development services (ICDS) in a district of Western India

Dave PD, Chauhan M, Sarkar A

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Prashant D. Dave^1,* Meet Chauhan², and Amrita Sarkar³

¹Department of Community Medicine (PSM), Parul Institute of Medical Science and Research (PIMSR), Vadodara, Gujarat 391760, India

²Department of Community Medicine, Shantabaa Medical College, Amreli, Gujarat 365601, India

³Department of Community Medicine, Tomo Riba Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (TRIHMS), Arunachal Pradesh-791110, India

*Corresponding author: Dr. Prashant D. Dave, Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine (PSM), Parul Institute of Medical Science and Research (PIMSR), Vadodara, Gujarat 391760, India. Email: drprashantdave57@gmail.com.

Received 20 April 2023; Revised 7 June 2023; Accepted 15 June 2023; Published 23 June 2023

Citation: Dave PD, Chauhan M, Sarkar A. Evaluation of healthcare services of integrated childhood development services (ICDS) in a district of Western India. J Med Sci Res. 2023; 11(3):215-219. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17727/JMSR.2023/11-40

Copyright: © 2023 Dave PD et al. Published by KIMS Foundation and Research Center. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Abstract

Background: Early years of the life are the most crucial period for the physical, mental, social, emotional, language development and lifelong learning. Integrated child development services (ICDS) program maintained its uniqueness as early childhood development program of the world. The objectives of study were to (1) evaluate the ICDS services & its utilization by the beneficiaries & (2) find out differences in health care services between rural & urban anganwadi centres (AWCs).

Method: A cross sectional study involving selected 120 AWCs of Jamnagar was carried out using a pro forma having questions related to health care services provided under ICDS.

Results: 67% of beneficiaries were regular in pre-school education (PSE). Percentage of mild, moderate & severe malnutrition varied between 82-85%, 7-12% &6-8% in children between 6m-6 years respectively. Referral services, nutrition and health care session, vaccination services, routine healthcare check-up of children at every 1-3 month and Minimum 4 ANC visits were provided in 60%, 82.5%, 62.5%, 75% and 77.5% AWCs respectively.

Conclusion: About 2/3rd beneficiaries were regularly attending PSE with higher prevalence in urban than rural AWCs. Percentage of mild, moderate & severe malnutrition varied between 82-85%, 7-12% & 6-8% in children of 6 months to 6 years respectively. Rural AWCs had more ‘mild malnourished’ child & urban AWCs had more ‘severely malnourished child’.

Keywords: evaluation; ICDS, healthcare service; malnourished child