Prevalence of Malaria Parasitaemia among Pregnant Women Attending Three Selected Health Centers in Ideato South Local Government Area, Imo State
| Autor: | Robinson-Bassey Grace. C, Akaeze Gloria O, Frank Maureen D |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
Pregnancy medicine.medical_specialty Chlamydia business.industry Obstetrics 030231 tropical medicine Gonorrhea 030108 mycology & parasitology medicine.disease Checklist 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Menstrual cramps parasitic diseases Pelvic inflammatory disease medicine medicine.symptom business Local government area Malaria |
| Zdroj: | Obstetrics & Gynecology International Journal. 4 |
| ISSN: | 2377-4304 |
| DOI: | 10.15406/ogij.2016.04.00111 |
| Popis: | This a community based study of prevalence of malaria parasitaemia in pregnancy carried out in three selected health centres in Idea to south LGA of Imo state. A simple random sampling technique was used to select the areas of study as well as the 120 participants used for the study. A checklist was used to collect the socio-demographic data of the subjects within the age range of 16-40years. Venous blood sample of the subjects were collected from the subjects and examined for presence of malaria parasites using standard procedures of haemoglobin and packed cell volume. Seventy-eight (66.7%) tested positive to malaria parasite with the highest prevalence occurring in the third trimester (79.2%). Also, the distribution of occurrence in different gravidity groups observed the highest prevalence occurrence amongst the primigravidae (71.0%), followed by secundigravidae (63.2%) and multigravidae (40.0%). The result shows reduction in both the PCV and HB levels of the pregnant women indicating anaemia especially in their third trimester. The chi-square statistics indicated that there is a significant relationship between age and malaria parasitaemia among pregnant women, (x 2 =1.84, df=4, p =0.05). The null hypothesis was therefore rejected at 0.05 alpha level. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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