Meta-Analysis of Reproductive Health Seeking in Indian Women

54.8% of Indian women with reproductive morbidities sought treatment, according to a systematic review synthesizing studies from PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar. The analysis, registered in PROSPERO, found a pooled morbidity prevalence of 41.5% and quantified key barriers like symptom normalization (60%) and financial constraints (12.3%).

Use Cases

• Analyze the prevalence of health-seeking behavior (54.8%) across different reproductive morbidity categories like menstrual disorders or infertility.
• Model determinants of care utilization using extracted factors such as socioeconomic status, embarrassment (16.3%), and distance to facilities (8.4%).
• Compare treatment modality adoption rates, including allopathic medicine (66%), home remedies (27.9%), and AYUSH therapies (12.7%).
• Assess the distribution of care-seeking between government (31.4%) and private (54.7%) healthcare facilities.

Strengths

• Follows PRISMA 2020 guidelines with a protocol registered in PROSPERO (CRD42024562508).
• Quantitative synthesis provides pooled prevalence estimates with 95% confidence intervals (e.g., 41.5% morbidity, 54.8% treatment-seeking).
• Identifies and quantifies multiple specific barriers to care, such as symptom normalization at 60%.

Limitations

• The 76.4 KB file is a document summarizing the review, not the underlying raw study data, limiting direct computational analysis.
• As a systematic review, findings are dependent on the quality, scope, and publication bias of the included primary studies.

Provenance

Source

Systematic review and meta-analysis authored by Sananthya Karthikeyan.

Collection Method

Literature search across PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar, with data extraction, risk-of-bias assessment, and meta-analysis of proportions.

Time Range

Studies from database inception to January 29, 2026.

Freshness

Literature search covered studies from database inception to January 29, 2026.

Geography

India.