Association between Maternal Age at Childbirth and Infant Health Outcome in a Prospective Birth Cohort from a Small Town Hospitals of Southern Gujarat
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 5
Abstract
Introduction: The practice of child marriage resulting to teenage preg-nancy in rural India is deeply root-ed in cultural values. This leads to adolescent pregnancy and poor child carrying resulting poor infant heath outcome. Objective: To study an association between maternal age and infant health outcomes. Study design: Community based prospective study. Materials and methods: Communi-ty based prospective cohort study was carried out in the Gandevi Block of Gujarat. Selected partici-pants were interviewed using pre designed and pre tested question-naires. Results: There were 37 Adolescent mothers and 68 adult mothers (con-trol cohort). 32.4% Adolescent mothers were illiterate. 70.3% ado-lescent mothers and 30.9% adult mothers were primi. 43.2% adoles-cent mothers and 23.5% adult mothers gave birth to pre term ba-bies. Proportion of low birth weight was also high among the adolescent mothers (62.2%) compared to adult mothers (39.7%). Episodes of illness and hospitalization of infants were higher among adolescent mothers. Conclusion: This study concluded with the findings that maternal age at childbirth has significant impact on the health status of infant. Also factors like education, types of fami-ly, socio-economic status and occu-pation of the mothers were related to birth weight of the newborns. Avoiding teenage pregnancies, im-proving the socio-economic status of people and infant mortality rates were significantly associated with preterm delivery, low birth weight and per capita income.
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Nitin Solanki, Rakesh R Shah, Abhay Kavishwar, Vipul Chaudhari
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