Relationship of Maternal Sociodemographic characteristics With Neonate’s Weight among Primigravida Attending Primary Health Care Centers in Sulaimani City/Iraq

Abstract

Background: Birth weight plays an important role in infant survival, child development, and adult metabolic diseases also, maternal characteristics have been variously shown to impact on the progress and outcome of pregnancy, especially those related to birth weight and perinatal mortality.

Aim of the study: The study aimed to identify the association between sociodemographic characteristics of the mother and birth weight.

Methodology: A Prospective analytic study of 147 prime pregnant women who visited primary health centers for antenatal care in Sulaimani City were eligible to participate in this study prospectively followed up until the postpartum. This study collected of the data in a period starting from 30 \ December \ 2018 to 30 \ June \ 2019. An interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to retrieve information on sociodemographic characteristics from the participants. Descriptive & inferential statistical used for analysis data; it was done with the SPSS version 22.0 software.

Results: The result of study revealed that the men of the age of women were 24.4 and SD=5.04, 75.5% were housewives, (46.9%) were sufficient to some extent financially, (98.6%) were nonsmokers and (98.6%) wasn’t drinking alcohol. The majority of the cases (72.1%) were from urban areas and all of them delivered their babies at term. About 91.2% of the babies had normal birth weight, and the 1 st minute Apgar score of newborns for 94.9% of them were in the excellent condition and less than one quarter (21.1%) of them were admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit.

Conclusion: There was no statistical significant relationship between neonate′s birth weights with mother′s sociodemographic characteristics, but there was a statistical significant association between birth weights of the study sample with their residency.

Recommendation: according to these finding the researcher emphasize on prenatal care as early as possible that the nurse must take the role in reducing the incidence of LBW.