Physical Factors of Spontaneous Abortion in Maternity Teaching Hospital in Erbil City
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https://doi.org/10.15218/ejnm.2024.01Keywords:
Spontaneous abortion, Physical factors, Pregnant womenAbstract
Background and objectives: Abortion is considered a major reproductive health issue that acts as a health risk factor for mothers' well-being and threatens their lives and comfort. This study will contribute to recognize and be a better understanding of the physical risk factors for spontaneous abortion. The aim of the study was to find out the physical factors, which include previous and current medical factors of different types of spontaneous abortion by comparing the case and control groups among women in the Maternity Teaching Hospital in Erbil City.
Methods: A quantitative case-control study was conducted on 850 women with sponta-neous abortions and pregnant women (each group was 425) pregnant women. However, the sample size of the study was 770 for both groups (each group was 385), however, 850 women were chosen who were admitted to Maternity Teaching Hospital and were selected through non-probability purposive sampling. A questionnaire was developed for the purpose of data collection, which included socio-demographic characteristics of the study sample and questions about physical characteristics. Frequency, percentage, the inferential statistical analysis of the Chi-square test (fissure exact test), and binary logistic regression were used for data analysis.
Results: There was a significant difference between spontaneous abortion and physical factors which included medical conditions such as cardiovascular, urinary tract, neuro-logical, and immune diseases. Additionally, medical history such as obstetrical and gyne-cology surgery, gynecology disease, family history of chronic disease, and family history of spontaneous abortion. Cardiovascular diseases (OR:2.710; CI:1.636-4.483), immune diseases (OR:0.230; CI:0.113-0.466), history of obstetrics and gynecology surgeries (OR:0.599; CI:0.436-0.824), family history of chronic diseases (OR:1.834; CI:1.336-2.518), family history of spontaneous abortion (OR:0.098; CI:0.050-0.193) were predictors of the spontaneous abortion.
Conclusion: Some physical factors are risk factors for spontaneous abortion.
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