Preterm Birth and Associated Factors among Mothers Who gave Birth in Debremarkos Town Health Institutions, 2013 Institutional Based Cross Sectional Study

Background: The birth of a preterm infant results in significant health consequences to the infant and emotional and economic costs for families and communities. About 75% of perinatal deaths and 50% of neurological abnormalities are directly attributed to preterm. The main aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and associated factors of pre-term birth North West Ethiopia.

Methods: An institutional based cross sectional study was conducted. Systematic sampling was used to get the total sample size of 422 participants. The data was entered, cleaned and edited using EPI INFO version 2002 and exported to SPSS version 16.0 software packages for analysis. Both bivariate and multiple logistic regression were fitted and odds ratio and 95% CI were computed to identify associated factors and determine the strength of association. A p-value of <0.05 was considered as statistical significant.

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