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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