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Maternal morbidity in Butajira and Wukro districts, North and South Central Ethiopia

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posted on 2013-01-01, 00:00 authored by A Mekonnen, E Mahmoud, M Fantahun, S Hagos, M Assegid
Background: Worldwide, for every woman that dies of maternal causes, there are at least 20 more women who suffer from infection, disabilities and injuries relating to pregnancy and childbirth. Objective: To determine the magnitude and the role of socio-economic, demographic and reproductive factors on the occurrence of maternal morbidity in the study population. Methods: During the months of January to February 2012, a community based cross sectional survey was conducted to assess magnitude and factors affecting maternal morbidity in selected kebeles of Wukro and Butajira districts, Tigray and Southern Nation Nationalities and People 's (SNNP) regions respectively, Ethiopia. A total of 4949 women who had deliveries in the two years preceding the survey were included. Following description of variables under the study, bivariate and Multivariable statistics were used to see the relationship between different factors and maternal morbidity. Results: A total of 688 (14.2%) women reported that they had at least one form of morbidity. The three most frequent reported maternal morbidity during antenatal period were severe headache 89 (17.2%), lower abdominal pain (15.1%) and excessive vomiting (11.4%). Of the 220 women who reported to have morbidity during labor and delivery, prolonged labor (more than 24 hours) was accounted for 89 (40.5%) followed by hemorrhage and premature rapture of membranes in 74 (33.6%) and 23 (10.5%) of the cases respectively. Lower proportion of maternal morbidity was reported in Wukro than Butajira district [AOR (95% CI) = 0.17 (0.12, 0.25)]. Poorest and poor women were more likely to report to be sick [AOR (95%CI) =1.79(1.10,2.91)] and [AOR (95%CI)=1.65 (1.10,2.47)] respectively. Women with parity of 5-6 and >7 children respectively were also more likely to be morbid [AOR (95%CI)=1.52(1.11,2.09)] and [AOR (95%CI)=2.01 (1.38,2.91)]. Women who had facility delivery were found more likely to have reported maternal morbidity with [AOR (95%CI) = 3.73(2.96,4.71)] Conclusion: High parity, wealth status and facility delivery were found to be independent predictors of maternal morbidity. Empowering women through improving their resource generation capacity, and access to family planning services to those with high parity would diminish the likelihood of having maternal morbidity. Maternal morbidity, health service utilization, North and South central Ethiopia.

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Journal

Ethiopian Medical Journal

Volume

51

Pagination

239-248

ISSN

0014-1755

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C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

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4

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