Maternal and neonatal factors associated with hospital readmission of newborns of adolescent mothers.

Abstract

To analyze the maternal and neonatal factors in newborns of adolescent mothers associated with hospital readmission in the neonatal period. Quantitative cross-sectional, retrospective and analytical study, with 489 newborns of adolescent mothers, born in 2019 and 2020 in a high-complexity public hospital in southern Brazil. Data were collected through a query and analyzed in the SPSS software using the chi-square or Fisher's exact tests. To control for confounding factors, the multivariate Poisson regression model was used. The prevalence of hospital readmissions for newborns of adolescent mothers was 9.2%, mainly due to respiratory conditions, being the most prevalent the diagnosis of acute bronchiolitis, at 22.3%. Neonatal hospital readmission was associated with prematurity, 1st minute Apgar <7 and maternal origin.