Abstract
ObjectiveIn Ethiopia skilled deliveries are increasing but stillbirth is not reducing as required. However; there are limited numbers of up to date studies done related to stillbirth in the study area. Therefore this was aimed to assess the prevalence and determinants of stillbirth using facility based cross-sectional study among women attended deliveries at Aksum General Hospital in 2018. Systematic random sampling method was used to select 573 study participants from the deliveries attended during the study period. The data was entered into Epi-data version 3.1 and exported to Statistical Package for Social Science version 21 for analysis. Bivariate and multivariable logistic regression analysis were conducted to identify significant predictors and strength of association was measured based on adjusted odds ratio with 95% confidence level and statistical significance was declared at p-value less than 0.05.ResultsThe prevalence of stillbirth was 3.68% in this study area. Maternal age 20–35 (AOR = 0.25; 95% CI (0.08, 0.80)), not using partograph (AOR = 8.66; 95% CI (2.88, 26.10)) and gestational age < 37 weeks (AOR = 3.86; 95% CI (1.27, 11.69)) were the independent factors affecting the stillbirth.
Highlights
Stillbirth is one of the adverse births outcomes and represent major problem in both developing and developed countries [1]
Mothers who gave birth at Aksum general hospital who were randomly selected included in the study and those critically sick mothers who cannot respond during data collection were excluded from the study
Four hundred eighty-nine (86%) of the study participants were lived with family size of below five and two hundred thirtyseven (41.6%) had monthly income of 2500–5000 Ethiopian birr (Table 1)
Summary
Stillbirth is one of the adverse births outcomes and represent major problem in both developing and developed countries [1]. Developing countries are remained as the major contributors of stillbirth in which Ethiopia is among those in the higher prevalence [2,3,4,5]. It is the reflections of quality of care during pregnancy and child birth; skilled deliveries are increasing but stillbirth is not well reducing as required in the developing world including Ethiopia [3,4,5,6].
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