After approval of ethics committee of the institute community based
study was carried out in villages of two districts of Maharashtra of
India, 65 in Dharni Block of Melghat in Amravati District and 53
villages near Sewagram of Wardha District, making a total of 118
villages, with a population of around one lac ten thousand. Study
subjects, women of 15-44 years from every fourthhouse, were interviewed
by the research assistants. Those who had complications in relation to
SA or IA were the study subjects. Informed consent for recording
information on a hard tool was taken before administering the
predesigned and pretested questionnaire in local language by one to one,
face to face direct interviews. Responses were recorded then and there
on the questionnaire. No one was given questionnaire to fill. Focus
group discussions (FGDs) were also conducted in the same villages with
no age or abortion criteria. All those women of villages who were
willing to participate in FGDs were part of the FGDs, 8-10 in a group in
anyvillage.