PREVALENCE OF LOW BIRTH WEIGHT AND ITS ASSOCIATED FACTORS AT NATIONAL HOSPITAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY IN 2022

Nguyễn Thị Thu Liễu1,, Lê Thị Hương1, Trần Danh Cường2
1 Institute for Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Hanoi Medical University
2 National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Objectives: Determine the rate of low birth weight and describe some related factors at the National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2021. Subjects: children born at the National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the mothers of the infants. Research Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive. Results and conclusions: The rate of low birth weight infants was 14.1%. Mothers aged 35 years and older are 4.8 times more likely to have a low birth weight baby than mothers under 35 years old, the difference is statistically significant with 95% CI (2.4 - 9.7) . Mothers with a high school education or less are 3.5 times more likely to have a low birth weight baby than mothers with a high school education, the difference is statistically significant with 95% CI (1, 8 - 7.2), mothers with a history of preterm birth are 4.3 times more likely to have a low birth weight baby than mothers without a history of preterm birth, this difference is statistically significant with the confidence interval. 95% CI:(1.4-11.9). Thus, the factors closely related to the rate of low birth weight babies are the mother's age, the mother's education level and the mother's history of preterm birth.

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