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VOL. 5, ISSUE 1 (2023)
Assessment of maternal outcome among Covid -19 positive and negative mothers: A case control-retrospective study
Authors
Marylin Shinde
Abstract
WHO on February 11, 2020 announced name for
the new corona virus disease: COVID 19 and International Committee on Taxonomy
of viruses has proposed SARS-CoV-2 as the name of the virus that causes
COVID-19. The most common manifestations of COVID-19 consist of fever, cough,
and fatigue, or myalgia, sputum production headache and breathlessness. This
started the emergence of a new pandemic affecting human life globally. Many
obstetric associations have responded with series of guiding documents to
navigate through this unknown territory. Objectives of the studies are, to
assess the maternal outcome in COVID-19 positive mothers. To correlate the
maternal in COVID-19 positive mothers with COVID-19 negative mothers. A
Quantitative Research approach, Case Control retrospective research design used
to assess the maternal among COVID-19 positive and negative mothers in selected
hospitals of city. Among 100 samples 50 in each group by using simple random
sampling technique by random table method by implementing self-structured
questionnaire. Majority of samples 43(86%) were high risk related to COVID-19
infection in COVID-19 positive mothers. majority of samples 37(74%) had poor
neonatal outcome in COVID-19 positive mothers. In this study researcher observe
that higher rate of caesarean section in COVID19 positive women. Researcher
also found that majority 74% of neonate required NICU admission. COVID-19
positive mothers have good maternal outcome but neonate have poor outcome were
as in COVID-19 negative mothers there is good maternal and neonatal outcome.
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Pages:12-14
How to cite this article:
Marylin Shinde "Assessment of maternal outcome among Covid -19 positive and negative mothers: A case control-retrospective study". International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics Research, Vol 5, Issue 1, 2023, Pages 12-14
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