Prevalence and associated factors of low birth weight in Axum town, Tigray, North Ethiopia

OBJECTIVE: Weight at birth is a good indicator of the newborn’s chances for survival, growth, long-term health and psychosocial development. Therefore, the aimed of this study is to assess the prevalence and associated factors of low birth weight in Axum town, Tigray, North Ethiopia. RESULT: The mag...

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Autores principales: Aboye, Wondim, Berhe, Tesfay, Birhane, Taddis, Gerensea, Hadgu
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6167810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30285895
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3801-z
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author Aboye, Wondim
Berhe, Tesfay
Birhane, Taddis
Gerensea, Hadgu
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Berhe, Tesfay
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description OBJECTIVE: Weight at birth is a good indicator of the newborn’s chances for survival, growth, long-term health and psychosocial development. Therefore, the aimed of this study is to assess the prevalence and associated factors of low birth weight in Axum town, Tigray, North Ethiopia. RESULT: The magnitude of low birth weight was 8.8%. Height of mother adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 4.607 (CI 1.34–15.8), gestational age AOR 4.7 (CI 1.08–20.44), anti-natal care (ANC) visit AOR 0.076 (CI 0.009–0.645), anemia during pregnancy AOR 14.5 (CI 3.821–55.6) and drinking alcohol AOR 6.4 (CI 1.235–33.94) were found to be significantly associated with low birth weight. Pre-conceptual counseling on nutrition, about the effect of short suture on birth outcome and personal maternal habit (drinking alcohol), effective treatment and prevention of anemia and awareness on the importance ANC follow up should be the target. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-018-3801-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-61678102018-10-09 Prevalence and associated factors of low birth weight in Axum town, Tigray, North Ethiopia Aboye, Wondim Berhe, Tesfay Birhane, Taddis Gerensea, Hadgu BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: Weight at birth is a good indicator of the newborn’s chances for survival, growth, long-term health and psychosocial development. Therefore, the aimed of this study is to assess the prevalence and associated factors of low birth weight in Axum town, Tigray, North Ethiopia. RESULT: The magnitude of low birth weight was 8.8%. Height of mother adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 4.607 (CI 1.34–15.8), gestational age AOR 4.7 (CI 1.08–20.44), anti-natal care (ANC) visit AOR 0.076 (CI 0.009–0.645), anemia during pregnancy AOR 14.5 (CI 3.821–55.6) and drinking alcohol AOR 6.4 (CI 1.235–33.94) were found to be significantly associated with low birth weight. Pre-conceptual counseling on nutrition, about the effect of short suture on birth outcome and personal maternal habit (drinking alcohol), effective treatment and prevention of anemia and awareness on the importance ANC follow up should be the target. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-018-3801-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2018-10-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6167810/ /pubmed/30285895 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3801-z Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Berhe, Tesfay
Birhane, Taddis
Gerensea, Hadgu
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title_full Prevalence and associated factors of low birth weight in Axum town, Tigray, North Ethiopia
title_fullStr Prevalence and associated factors of low birth weight in Axum town, Tigray, North Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence and associated factors of low birth weight in Axum town, Tigray, North Ethiopia
title_short Prevalence and associated factors of low birth weight in Axum town, Tigray, North Ethiopia
title_sort prevalence and associated factors of low birth weight in axum town, tigray, north ethiopia
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6167810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30285895
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3801-z
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