Risk of Teenage Pregnancy and Birth Asphyxia in Bangkeaw District, Phatthalung Province

Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigate risk of teenage pregnancy and birth asphyxia. Of these, 704 samples were pregnant women had delivery at Bangkeaw hospital, Phatthalung province between 2010 and 2014. The outcome was birth asphyxia derived from 43 folders in Bangkaew hospital. Multiple logistic regression was used to quantify risk of teenage pregnancy and birth asphyxia. The main findings revealed that teenage pregnancy was statistically significantly associated with birth asphyxia. That was, teenage pregnancy were more 4 times likely to have a risk of birth asphyxia, compared to pregnant women aged more than 20 years old (OR = 3.70, 95%CI: 1.15 to 11.90) after adjusted for confounding factors. The results suggested that health care promotion among teenage pregnant women should be intensively provided during antenatal and natal care in order to decrease neonatal birth asphyxia. In addition, campaign related to prevent teenage pregnancy should be continuously established in order to decrease teenage pregnancy in community.