Maternal, social and health factors influencing admission of newborns to the special newborn care unit at Kakinada, India

Autor:	Suhasini Vasireddy, Jhansi Nadipena, Thej Kiran Reddy Dalli, G. Krishna Babu, Krishna Kishore Aligina, K. Babji, R. Mahalakshmi
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Emergency medicine medicine business Newborn care Unit (housing)
Zdroj:	International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health. 7:1504
ISSN:	2394-6040 2394-6032
Popis:	Background: Substantial progress has been made in reducing under five mortality, infant mortality in the last two decades. We need to focus our attention in reducing neonatal mortality.Methods: Setting and design was observational study in SNCU of Government General Hospital, Kakinada. Data collected using semi-structured questionnaire and Hospital Records of mother and newborn. Analysis was done using MS EXCEL2007 and SPSS 20 software. Sample size and time period was a convenient sample of 300 mothers were interviewed from Jan- June, 2018.Results: The mean age of the mothers in the study is 23.39±3.195 years and age at marriage is 19.12±2.29 years. 79% of study population belong to lower social classes. Maternal risk factors-35.6 % are pre-obese or obese and 9.3% underweight, 11.3% had
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