EVALUATION THE RATE OF LBW (LOW BIRTH WEIGHT) IN TERM OF PREGNANCY AND TO FIND OUT DIFFERENT LINKED FACTORS OF RISK

Objective: This research work aimed to find out the rate of LBW (Low birth weight) in term pregnancy and to find out different linked factors of risk. Methodology: This was a transverse research work carried out in Gynecology Department of Nishter Hospital Multan. This research work started in March 2017 & finished in September 2018. Identification of females with pregnancy with single baby inside her of thirty seven or above close to complete weeks of gestation carried out. The females who delivered children with lower than twenty five hundred gram were the part of this research work. We evaluated the risk factor for low weight babies in all these females. Questionnaire was in use to note down the age of female, parity of female, weight & height of female, gender of fetal, social & economic status, habit of cigarette smoking & birth weight of baby. SPSS was in use for the statistical analysis of the collected information. Determination of rate of LBW and its linked factors of risk performed. Results: In the duration of this research work, 10.60% females gave birth low weight babies. Sixty seven percent patients did not receive antenatal care. We found the parity as lower than 3 in eighty seven percent females. In twenty five percent cases, the weight of mother was less than fifty kilograms & in 37.0% patients with LBW, height of mother was less than 5 feet. Most of the females were anemic (72.0%) including 20.0% with hemoglobin less than 7.0 grams. Conclusion: LBW has association with a complete group factors. These risk factors contained lower social and economic condition, anemic, prim-parity, low height of mother & less than average weight of mother. KEY WORDS: Average, LBW, hemoglobin, parity, association, determination, methodology, risk factors, feta