Study Of Risk Factors Associated With Low Birth Weight Among Newborns At A Tertiary Care Center.

[摘要] In India, it is possible that some risk factors that have raised major concern in the West, such assmoking among mothers, may not be operative in India. In our country where almost 70–80% births takeplace at home and peripheral hospitals, taking accurate birth weight is a problem due to unavailability ofweighing scale and trained personnel. To determine maternal risk factors associated with low birthweight among newborns in a tertiary care center. Present study was a case control study. Mothers of Lowbirth weight babies delivered in a tertiary care centre were studied. Thus 2 groups were made cases andcontrols each having 300 respondents. semi structured, predesigned, pretested proforma was used tocollect information from hospital-based records and mother and child protection card, if available andfrom mother. All data was analysed using SPSS software. Mean age among cases was 25.2+3.9 and amongcontrols was 24.5 +3.2 years. Among both cases 93.66% and controls 83.6% the weight gain was <10 kgs.Odds ratio was 0.5. Pre-pregnancy screening, early antenatal booking and proper identification of high- risk mother needs to be strengthened and enforced in effort to reduce incidence of LBW infants. Effectivehealth educations especially in promoting healthy wellbeing during prepregnancy care will help indetecting high-risk pregnancy that lead to LBW infants.

[学科分类] 工程和技术（综合）

[关键词] low birth weight;pregnancy;high risk;neonate