Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors of Ante-Partum Hemorrhage among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Clinic at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital Jinja City.

Abstract

This study was carried out at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital to determine the Prevalence and associated risk factors of antepartum haemorrhage among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics. The researcher used simple random sampling to select her Mothers to participate in the study. The mothers that participated in this study were 15 years and above and had genuine and mature answers according to the Researcher's view of the study. The questionnaires were constructed to obtain information on the prevalence and associated risk factors of antepartum haemorrhage among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics. The researcher analyzed the quantitative data that was collected using questionnaires and analyzed using SPSS. It was expressed in terms of frequencies and percentages, which helped the researcher to show the distribution of respondents on each of the independent and dependent variables. The majority of the mothers were of the age group (26-30) years accounting for 33.3%, and the least were both (30-35) years and above 35 years accounting for 18.8%. 91.7% of the respondents were married, 4.2% were divorced and 2.1% were widows. The majority were peasants accounting for 41.7%, followed by employed ones at 31.2%, unemployed were 25.0% and lastly unspecified at 2.1%. These respondents were majorly of college/tertiary level of education accounting for 37.5%, followed by uneducated at 25.0%, secondary level at 22.9%, primary level were 10.9% and lastly post-graduate level at 2.1%. The majority of the respondents were not having PV bleeding which is 79.1% and those with PV bleeding were only 18.8% of the respondents. For those with PV bleeding it mainly lasted for 1 day with 6.2% of the respondents. It has found that APH was common in mothers in the age group of (20-30) years and factors which increased APH among women that participated in the study included the following factors smoking or chewing tobacco, number of deliverance, history of operations on the uterus, time interval to get another pregnancy, history of trauma. This made these major risk factors of APH. There the research recommended the government, sub-county, district and health workers to educate mothers on the risk factors of APH especially those above. Keywords: Antepartum haemorrhage, Pregnant women, Antenatal clinic, PV bleeding, Mothers.