Obstetrics complications: effects and concerns at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (Kath)
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2018-05-11
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KNUST
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Obstetrics complication is an acute condition arising from indirect or direct causes
of maternal death. Approximately 20 million of these claim the lives of 67,000
women. These deaths represent 11% of all pregnancy-related mortality in Ghana.
A logistic regression was performed to ascertain the effects of age, marital status,
education level, occupational status and place of delivery on the likelihood that
women experienced obstetric complications. The study was based on 320 women
between 15 49 years from May to August, 2015. Women who were younger
than 30, unemployed, single with low education and of low socio-economic status
were thrice more likely to have abortion than those with eclampsia complications.
Increasing levels of education was associated with increased likelihood of having
eclampsia. Increasing in age was associated with increased likelihood of experiencing eclampsia complication but decreasing in age was associated with reduction in the likelihood of having abortion. Also, a unit change in marital status (being married) was associated with a reduction in experiencing eclampsia. It was
evident that only 107(33.4%) of the women used contraceptives after treatment
indicating unmet need of family planning. It is recommended that women should
use contraceptives in order to avert unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortion and
eclampsia which ends in maternal morbidity and mortality.
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A thesis submitted to the department of mathematics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of M.PHIL Mathematical Statistics