Researchers conducted this study to assess the prevalence of obstetric danger signs during pregnancy and associated factors among mothers in a Shashemene rural district, South Ethiopia.
A community-based cross-sectional study design was conducted among 395 randomly selected women who gave birth in the last six months. Data were cleaned, coded, and entered into Epi data manager version 4.1 and then exported to SPSS version 20. Bivariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses were employed to assess the association between independent variables with the outcome variable.
One hundred sixty-three women had a history of obstetric danger signs during pregnancy. The most prevalent obstetric danger signs were vaginal bleeding followed by swelling of the body 12.7% and severe vomiting 5.3%. Women who have less than four times antenatal care visits were 6.7 times more likely to experience obstetric danger signs than those who had antenatal care visits four times and above.
The study concluded that about half of the pregnant mothers had experienced at least one obstetric danger sign. Public health interventions on maternal health should prioritize the prevalent causes of obstetric danger signs.
Reference: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jp/2020/6153146/
