Determinants of low birth weight in a rural area of Tamil Nadu, India: a case-control study

Kandhasamy, Kanimozhy; Singh, Zile

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“…[12][13][14][15] Regarding the educational status, 80% of them were educated up to class 12 in the present study, similar findings were found in various other studies. 16,17 Majority of the study subjects were house wife's in the present study, similar results were obtained in study conducted by Kandhasamy et al 6 Majority of them belonged to class 3 SES in the present study, similar results were obtained in study conducted by Kandhasamy et al and Rajashree et al 6,12 This study found that around 60% of the study subjects had <2 ante natal visits which was similar to the findings of study conducted by Kandhasamy et al and Malik et al, where in those mothers who had received less than four ANC visits had a significant risk of having LBW.…”

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Prevalence of low birth weight and its associated factors: a community based cross sectional study in a rural area of Rohtak, Haryana, India

Shashikantha

Sheethal

2016

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Low birth weight (LBW) is a major public health issue in developing countries like India. LBW leads to an impaired growth of the infant resulting in a higher mortality rate and increased morbidity. LBW is also an important indicator of maternal and child health. Objective is to find the prevalence of low birth weight in a rural area and to study maternal factors associated with occurrence of low birth weight. Methods: This community based cross sectional study was undertaken in block Chiri, a rural field practice area attached to PGIMS, Rohtak. All the births which had occurred during the period from 1 st January to 31 st December, 2012 under one Primary health care center were included in the study. The list of deliveries during the study period was prepared with the help of ANMs, anganwadi workers and ASHAs. Details regarding antenatal, intranatal and post natal events were collected from the mothers using a pre-tested semistructured questionnaire after obtaining written informed consent. The data obtained were analysed using appropriate statistical tests. Results: The prevalence of low birth weight was found to be 18% in the study area. In the present study nearly 70% of the mothers with low birth weight babies were less than 19 years of age at the time of delivery, 80% of them were educated up to class 12, 78% were house wife's, 40% of them belonged to class 3 socio economic status, only 40% of them had got 3 or more antenatal checkup. Conclusion: The prevalence of low birth weight was 18% in the present study. Majority of them were aged <19years, educated up to 12th class, majority of them were house wives belonging to class 3 SES and had less than two antenatal checkup.

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Prevalence of low birth weight and its associated factors: a community based cross sectional study in a rural area of Rohtak, Haryana, India

Shashikantha

Sheethal

2016

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“…Kandhaswamy et al and Dasgupta et al observed that Odds of having LBW was twice among the mothers who inadequately consume IFA tablets. 20,21 The results of study shows that lack of proper consumption of IFA tablets increases the chance of low birth weight and highlighted the need of program directed at girls and women much before pregnancy. In present study, the proportion of LBW was higher (20.7%) among those living joint family, as compared to mothers living in nuclear families i.e.…”

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Prevalence and associate factors of low birth weight in North Indian babies: a rural based study

Kumar

Verma

Khanna

et al. 2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: LBW is universally used as an indicator of health status and is an important subject of national concern and a focus of health policy. LBW is the strongest determinant of infant morbidity and mortality in India. Regional estimates of LBW include 28% in south Asia, 13% in sub-Saharan Africa and 9% in Latin America. Among regions, South Asia has the highest incidence of LBW; with one in four newborns has LBW. In 2011, Indian Statistical Institute reported nearly 20% of new born have LBW in India. DLHS-4 (2012-2013) in Haryana found that the prevalence of LBW was as 12.7%. The aims and objectives of study were to know the prevalence and its associated factors of low birth weight in rural area of Haryana.Methods: The beri block (Jhajjar) which is rural field practice of department of Community Medicine Pt B D Sharma PGIMS Rohtak (Haryana) India, has one CHC Dighal having 20 sub-centers. 10 sub-centers were selected by simple random sampling from these 20 sub-centres and 800 study subjects were enrolled from June 2015 to May 2016 from selected subcentres.Results: In present study, prevalence of LBW was 17%. The study found that sex of baby, type of family, socioeconomic status, educational status of mother, occupation of mother, anemia and intake of IFA had significantly impacted on LBW in India.Conclusions: Prevalence of LBW is decreased by health and nutrition education, iron and folic acid supplementation, effective management of complication.

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“…Various maternal determinants of LBW have been identified in different studies on women residing in urban and rural areas, but these have not been measured simultaneously with the same frameworks. For example, maternal age at pregnancy, interpregnancy interval, gestational age at delivery, weight of the mother and anaemia during pregnancy have been shown to be strong determinants of LBW in a cohort of rural Indian pregnant women ( 3 ) . Further, the intakes of green leafy vegetables, milk and fruit in rural pregnant women were also associated with birth size ( 2 , 4 ) and lower intakes of these food groups were observed in rural compared with urban women ( 5 ) .…”

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Socio-economic, environmental and nutritional characteristics of urban and rural South Indian women in early pregnancy: findings from the South Asian Birth Cohort (START)

Dwarkanath¹,

Vasudevan²,

Thomas³

et al. 2018

Public Health Nutr.

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Determinants of low birth weight in a rural area of Tamil Nadu, India: a case-control study

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Prevalence of low birth weight and its associated factors: a community based cross sectional study in a rural area of Rohtak, Haryana, India

Prevalence of low birth weight and its associated factors: a community based cross sectional study in a rural area of Rohtak, Haryana, India

Prevalence and associate factors of low birth weight in North Indian babies: a rural based study

Socio-economic, environmental and nutritional characteristics of urban and rural South Indian women in early pregnancy: findings from the South Asian Birth Cohort (START)

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