Factors associated with low birth weight at Debre Markos Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia: a hospital based cross-sectional study

Animut Alebel; Fasil Wagnew; Cheru Tesema; Alemu Gebrie; Daniel Bekele Ketema; Getnet Asmare; Getiye Dejenu Kibret

doi:10.1186/s13104-019-4143-1

Factors associated with low birth weight at Debre Markos Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia: a hospital based cross-sectional study

Animut Alebel, Fasil Wagnew, Cheru Tesema, Alemu Gebrie, Daniel Bekele Ketema, Getnet Asmare, Getiye Dejenu Kibret

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Objective: To assess the prevalence and associated factors of low birth weight among newborns delivered at Debre Markos Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia.

Results: From the total of 368 newborn baby/mother pairs planned to be participated, 338 agreed and involved in the study giving a response rate of 91.2%. In this study, the prevalence of low birth weight was 21.6 (95% CI 17.5, 26%). Being rural residence (AOR 2.0, 95% CI 1.0, 4.1), duration of pregnancy (AOR = 7.6, 95% CI 3.3, 17.4), and having complications during pregnancy (AOR 2.6, 95% CI 1.2, 5.7) were found to be factors significantly associated with low birth weight.

Original language	English
Article number	105
Pages (from-to)	1-6
Number of pages	6
Journal	BMC Research Notes
Volume	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4143-1
Publication status	Published - 27 Feb 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Low birth weight
Associated factors Debre Markos
Northwest Ethiopia

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