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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Nurs Scholarsh. 2007;39(4):349–357. doi: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2007.00192.x

Table 2.

The Three Most Frequent Health Care Problems in Each Category

Category Healthcare problem n (%)
Antenatal Environmental Residence 1466 (67.5%)
Sanitation 404 (18.6%)
Income 267 (12.3%)
Psychosocial Interpersonal relationships 7650 (82.7%)
Caretaking/parenting 625 (6.8%)
Growth & development 427 (4.6%)
Physiologic Antepartum/postpartum 86,237 (95.7%)
Circulation 1471 (1.6%)
Respiration 908 (1.0%)
Health-related behaviors Health care supervision 35,158 (69.3%)
Nutrition 13,151 (25.9%)
Woman not home 1186 (2.3%)
Postpartum Environmental Residence 286 (64.7%)
Income 133 (30.1%)
Sanitation 14 (3.2%)
Psychosocial Growth & development 12,287 (64.3%)
Interpersonal relationships 3463 (18.1%)
Caretaking/parenting 3171 (16.6%)
Physiologic Antepartum/postpartum 24,020 (90.3%)
Integument 1551 (5.8%)
Circulation 485 (1.8%)
Health-related behaviors Healthcare supervision 12,491 (87%)
Nutrition 910 (6.3%)
Woman not home 669 (4.7%)
Total Environmental Residence 1752 (67%)
Sanitation 418 (16%)
Income 400 (15.3%)
Psychosocial Growth & development 12.714 (44.8%)
Interpersonal relationships 11,113 (39.2%)
Caretaking/parenting 3796 (13.4%)
Physiologic Antepartum/postpartum 110,257 (94.5%)
Circulation 1956 (1.7%)
Integument 1692 (1.4%)
Health-related behaviors Healthcare supervision 47,649 (73.2%)
Nutrition 14,061 (21.6%)
Woman not home 1855 (2.8%)

Note. Because only the three most frequent problems are listed, numbers and percentages do not add to 100%.