Strengths and limitations
Findings of this community-based study on a representative sample apply to 21 urban slums in Mangaluru and other cities with similar socio-demography and health service utilisation profiles. To minimise the recall bias, we restricted husbands whose wives had childbirth/s within one year.
Findings may not apply to husbands whose wives had an abortion or stillbirths within one year as we did not study them. However, only 4.2% of the women in the district experience abortion or stillbirth in a year . Husband’s involvement in BPCR in this study was self-reported, and there might be a disparity in self-reporting and actual practice.