Assessment of Magnitude and Associated Factors of Adverse Birth Outcomes among Deliveries at Suhul Hospital Shire Tigray, Ethiopia from September, 2015 to February, 2016

Abstract

An adverse birth outcome is common phenomena both in developed and underdeveloped countries. Among all these adverse birth outcomes prematurity, low birth weight and stillbirth are the most common cases. Each year, about 15 million babies in the world, more than one in 10 births, are born too prematurely. More than 7% of those babies die shortly after birth; countless others suffer from lifelong physical, neurological, or educational disabilities, often at great cost to families and societies. Assessment of magnitude and associated factors of neonatal adverse birth outcomes among deliveries at Suhul Hospital, Shire, Tigray, Ethiopia from September 2015 to February 2016. An institution based cross-sectional study with retrieving of information from cards retrospectively was conducted at the maternity ward of Suhul hospital from September 2015 to February 2016. The simple random sampling method was used. Data collection was done using a structured checklist. Logistic regression analyses were used to identify significant predictors of adverse birth outcomes. P-value ≤0.05 was considered as statistically significant. Odds ratio was also used to determine the strength of association between independent variables and the birth outcomes. The magnitude of adverse birth outcome among the study participants was higher than the WHO estimation. The induced onset of labour, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, antepartum haemorrhage, previous bad obstetric history and multiple pregnancies were the major predictors of adverse birth outcomes and improvement of maternal health care service requires strict attention. The result indicates that an intervention is mandatory being the magnitude is higher than the WHO estimation.

Keywords: Adverse birth outcome, preterm birth, stillbirth, low birth weight

Cite this Article

Tesfay Athena, Abera Haftu, Gelawdiwos Gebre, et al. Assessment of magnitude and associated factors of adverse birth outcomes among deliveries at Suhul Hospital Shire Tigray, Ethiopia from September 2015 to February 2016. Research & Reviews: Journal of Medical Science & Technology. 2017; 6(1): 1–10p.